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New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"
I can't believe my #selfhosting one year anniversary is coming up next week. @yunohost truly changed my digital life - for the better.
This is a 1st post in a 4 part miniseries intended for real newbies.
And now excuse me while I go hide in a cave expecting irate replies from sysadmins about certain things I wrote 😅
@_elena @yunohost Hello 👋 and thank you for yet again another guide <3 <3 <3
Could I request in the Backup/Restore part, a step-by-step practical guide to actually verifying the backup can restore? This has always been the most difficult part for me to wrap my mind around it, and most people/guides just kind of handwave over how to do it.
Also one fear I have: if I am on a VPS, what if my bill is $5/month, except one month it jumps to $250+ because of traffic? Can that happen? Ty Ty <3
@semitones yes of course! I plan to cover this in part 4. As for costs, I never went above 5 Euros a month, even when traffic / bandwidth usage was high because of my PeerTube video being shared widely…
@_elena that is very reassuring. If it works for you and your traffic, I'm sure it could work for me!
@_elena @yunohost Congratulation for your article and the journey into self-hosting !
I have started the same journey with the help of #neutrinet in Brussels and am very happy I did. I learned a lot and keep on learning.
As a self-employed musician, I find it very empowering to not rely on paid or centralised services for my digital life, since our fields can be quite precarious at times. It keeps the costs low, and the level of freedom high.
Thanks for spreading the good word 🙏
@eamonn thank you Eamonn! I had never heard of neutrinet... looking into it now. I loved what you wrote "keeps the costs low and the level of freedom high" – YES!!! 🙌
@sknob oh my! You may go down a rabbit hole... like me. I'm now addicted to self-hosting and always on the lookout for a new thing to add to my stack 😅
@_elena @yunohost I was really close to setting up a Yunohost server some months ago, but being a noob in this, got lost when it came to port forwarding. Think they could improve their docs on that part. Given that the Friendica instance I'm on is going to close in January, the Diaspora pod I'm on is currently down, & I want to go beyond the 500 character limit mastodon.social has, seems I need to try again to fix those things.
@TotalSonic I would highly highly recommend picking GoToSocial instead… I feel like it’s the hidden gem of the Fediverse. You set your own character limit, number of photos, poll options, custom emojis etc…
@_elena this is such a great approach, thank you for sharing! I don't really have the need right now, but it kind of make we want to do it anyway :D
@_elena @yunohost this is so timely! My bestie just asked me for advice on how she should proceed in moving her writing off substack and my own goal for the new year is to self host all my files so they are no longer on the cloud. Bless you Elena. This is exactly the accessibility we need to expand digital sovereignty to everyone!
@magpieluvseeds thank you so much! delighted to hear this 😊 @yunohost
@_elena @yunohost thanks bookmarked !
Another interesting point to explore with VPS is their T.O.S. Despite self-hosting we don't own fully the data and its existence rely on the will of the VPS provider. If the provider decide you break their T.O.S it's game-over again.
For example V.PS, netcup and Hetzner forbide storing pornographic content which may be seen as a red-flag (also see https://tenforward.blog/hetzner-considered-hostile-a-psa/).
Hetzner Considered Hostile: A PSA
@ticho great point ticho, thank you! Noted for part 4 :)
@ton thank you Ton. This first post may not be interesting for you, as it just covers what you need to get started (BEFORE installing YunoHost).
Re: your issues are you using a home server or a VPS?
I've had zero issues this year with GoToSocial, Pixelfed, PeerTube, NextCloud and Friendica... but I'm using a reliable VPS.
Re: Mastodon, I hear that it's quite resource intensive. That's why I opted for GoToSocial instead...
@_elena I'm on Hetzner, on a VPS w 32vcpu / 128GB ram / 360GB hdd set-up. It's more that the yunohost update scripts keep failing
@ton have you tried reaching out to the team or writing something on https://forum.yunohost.org ? I always find incredible help and feedback there...
@_elena@mastodon.social Here Take this duck with you. It will protect you!
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