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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:Question for you!What are the first few commands you immediately do after setting up a new Linux/*BSD machine? I don't care if you do it manually or automated with Ansible. I am just curious about what you deem to be the critical first thing :)Me: - feed my ssh keys to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys - immediately change /etc/ssh/sshd_config to set * PermitRootLogin Yes, * PubKeyAuthentication Yes, * PasswordAuthentication No. - rebootCurious what you do first :)<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Admin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Admin</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:"I want to keep my self hosting to the bare minimum" Well. <a href="https://up.wildeboer.net" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://up.wildeboer.net</a><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:Took some fighting to get RHEL10 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) installed (upload netboot ISO, connect it to the VPS, run installer via RDP as the netcup VNC doesn't do Wayland, connect to it after some struggle with xfreerdp on my laptop) but the installer finished, initial setup is done, letsencrypt certificate installed, firewall configured, SELinux is active anyway, done for now :)<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Netcup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Netcup</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/VPS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VPS</a>

Ethan ShollySelf-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)Teaching moments from <a href="https://aseachange.com/@elena" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@elena</a>, software updates and launches, a spotlight on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenArchiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenArchiver</a> - an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#email</a> archiving platform, and more in this week's <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newsletter</a> recap!<a href="https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://selfh.st/weekly/2025-08-22/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhosted</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/selfhosting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhosting</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opensource</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foss</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/homeserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homeserver</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#development</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#app</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/apps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#apps</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#activitypub</a>

ralf tauscher :FreiburgSocial:exploring cgi with <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/geminiprotocol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geminiprotocol</a> is fun <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/smolnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#smolnet</a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a>

/dev/aubergine0Remind me again why I spent too many hours over the last two nights modeling how I might <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> a <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#git</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/collaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#collaboration</a> server in <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/jails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jails</a> with <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/pot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pot</a>. Some years ago I told myself I shouldn’t do IT as a <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hobby</a>. It was already enough as a paid job. I should get better at keeping <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/promises" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#promises</a> to myself. It’s not that I don’t think it would be useful to have such a service at home. It’s that the effort-to-reward ratio would be poor, and I’d create even more <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/unpaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unpaid</a> work for myself.I’m going to stop ranting now because I don’t want to be <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/oldmanyellsatcloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oldmanyellsatcloud</a> this close to bedtime.

Artem R 🇺🇦fun fact, after initial setup I logged out from my dashboard to see how it works, only to find out that without set email sending service I can not log in back to admin, so I had to do a hard reset <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghost</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a>

Artem R 🇺🇦and another issue was emails — I had to use 2 different email sending services. Because for transactional emails I can use whatever provider I want, but for posts I can only use Mailgun — vendor lock <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghost</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a>

Artem R 🇺🇦For me the main issue with Ghost was lack of reactions (likes, thumbs, applause, etc). There is a almost defunct and rigid <a href="https://applause-button.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://applause-button.com</a> which inspired me to create own web component that using free Supabase DB. It is exposing only 1 function — increment which is ideal for counters! <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webdev</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghost</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a>

Artem R 🇺🇦For past few weeks exploring the idea of having a blog for photography and travels. So far landed on self hosted (via <a href="https://glitchy.upcloud.world/@upcloud" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@upcloud</a> ) Ghost CMS The cheapest VPS is 3€ per month and very with 1GB swap it is enough to run Ghost v6 with MySQL <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blog</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webdev</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghost</a>

silly goose meekahAbsolute noob here, can I host my own contacts and calendar syncing service to ditch google? <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/34775452" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://lemmy.world/post/34775452</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:And, following my own guide [1], I now have step-ca as Certificate Authority up and running as container (pod) on the Raspberry 4 for my homelab.[1] <a href="https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/07/letsencrypt-homelab-stepca/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/07/letsencrypt-homelab-stepca/</a><a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Selfhost</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homelab</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/ItsAlwaysDNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ItsAlwaysDNS</a> but I managed to get my own BIND9 name server up and running on the Raspberry 4 in my homelab. So I can now continue with setting up a new Certificate Authority (CA) as container. (please refrain from replying with "use dnsmasq!" or other solutions. I know what I am doing and I am stubborn. I'm a BIND9 guy. Period. :)<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homelab</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:TIL (Today I learned): If you wonder why your PoE (Power over Ethernet) Splitter fails to power the Raspberry 4 in your homelab, it helps to check the cables again. TL;DR my PoE injecting network switch has 8 network ports that deliver PoE but also two uplink ports that don't. Guess where I put the network cable ;) Solved. And now my Raspberry Pi 4 with Fedora 42 is connected with 1 Gbit/s, PoE powered and can be configured as DNS server :)<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homelab</a>

Primit1v3 :lpuverified:I've been working to <a href="https://locksport.space/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#degoogle</a> my life so I'm kind of apprehensive about setting up a <a href="https://locksport.space/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#youtube</a> channel for <a href="https://locksport.space/tags/locksport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#locksport</a> Anyone have experience running <a href="https://locksport.space/tags/Peertube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Peertube</a> on a <a href="https://locksport.space/tags/RaspberryPi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RaspberryPi</a>? Is a Pi4 with 8gb RAM enough to host? I'm not expecting massive traffic.<a href="https://locksport.space/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://locksport.space/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a>

Venya (he/him/dude) 🇺🇦Some great starting points for self-hosting services. Since setting up <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/TrueNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrueNAS</a> and starting to really get how this all can work, it's been hard not to just INSTALL ALL THE THINGS<a href="https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted</a><a href="https://musicians.today/tags/Github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Github</a> <a href="https://musicians.today/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a>

MartínEl mundo: *finalmente alcanza la paz global, todo está en calma*Yo: "Creo que también voy a hostear un task manager, PiHole, homepage, Beszel y Forgejo..."<a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhosted</a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homelab</a> <a href="https://rebel.ar/tags/homeserver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#homeserver</a>

HACK13I am sorry... I have just been struggling to really enjoy running <a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/matrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#matrix</a> because it just feels even using dendrite a bit to heavy for what it is... I really kinda miss the <a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xmpp</a> stuff which just feels more robustly usable, and less admin headache. It might be just me, but wondering if others agree?I mean I like the fact of Signal's security and other apps... but I prefer being on a platform that I can host and control.<a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhosted</a> <a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> <a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/messaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#messaging</a> <a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jabber</a> <a href="https://cyberfurz.social/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#signal</a>

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:Oktoberfest is coming to <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Munich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Munich</a> soon. But I will not participate. No alcohol for the next few weeks. I have to write Bind zonefiles for my Cute Homelab. And as we all know — It's Always DNS. So wish me luck ;)<a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/SelfHost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SelfHost</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/Homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Homelab</a> <a href="https://social.wildeboer.net/tags/DNS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DNS</a>

Art of the KevinBeginning the migration of all my scattered artwork over to Pixelfed. Preparing to walk away from corporate social media and focus on the Fediverse. <a href="https://fairly.social/tags/selfhost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#selfhost</a> <a href="https://fairly.social/tags/pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pixelfed</a> <a href="https://fairly.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialmedia</a> <a href="https://snaps.social/@artofthekevin" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://snaps.social/@artofthekevin</a>

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