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"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup"
with a special shout-out to @shollyethan and @ilja who, a year ago, encouraged me to try self-hosting. And of course immense gratitude to the @yunohost team for making all this possible ❤️
I hope this guide may inspire others to try it, too. The path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought...
@_elena
Thanks a lot, and I will probably spend some time during the holidays considering what Yunohost can do for me!
...and now the inevitable addition by someone who got burned by manual syncing to portable media:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncthing
Runs on my PC, laptop and phone. Whenever two of them find each other online, they sync a set of folders that I want to have available (KeePass store, current files or documents, GPG keys ...), amongst themselves, without me having to do anything. If the same file changed on different devices in between syncing, you get a warning and can resolve it yourself. It can also keep backups of previous versions.
Nextcloud can provide the same function (and more!) but needs a trusted server (admin can read/change the files!)
@_elena @shollyethan @ilja @yunohost
It was the first solution I explored when bought my VPS, unfortunately I discovered my Ubuntu version was too new for yunohost, or some obstacle like this.
@sposadelvento YunoHost runs on Debian not Ubuntu… that’s probably why. V12 more specifically…
@sposadelvento @shollyethan @ilja @yunohost Instead of installing Debian first and then Yunohost on top of it, wouldn’t it be simpler and more consistent for a beginner to just install the Yunohost ISO directly? 🙂 @_elena Idiscovered you starting from the a/i blog on cavalette.noblogs.org 😉 https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2025/12/10015
I don't quite get the domain name market.
1 euro for a domain at Ionos. I pay something like 20$ for mine. I don't get how and why the price changes over time. Etc.
I checked Ionos, in Québec, I see 1$ per year, which is even cheaper than 1 euro...
Anyway, for a few bucks per year, why would we not have a domain name?
@MichelPatrice I do domain name registrar hopping... not sure if I mentioned this before to you or someone else.
Like, over a year ago I got elena.social super cheap on Namecheap. But then the renewal fee was $45/year... too much IMHO.
So I looked into how much it would cost if I switched registrars and sure enough, by hopping to a different one, the price went down to $9/year.
It's quick and painless and I will be doing this in the future whenever the issue arises...
@_elena if I have a personal domain I use for email with Proton, do I need a different domain for self hosting photos, files, etc?
@TimeLime @_elena
It might help to think of your domain name like your house. Your house address is myhouse.net
Now, each room is like a service you want have, lounge = self_hosting_files and kitchen = self_hosting_photos.
If you invited me to your house, you to see your photos you can give me your address as kitchen.myhouse.net
We call the first part the 'host name' and just like kitchen is different to lounge in computers a different server/PC
You can make up your own host names
@TimeLime no! Example: I use elenarossini.com for my Wordpress-powered blog (hosted outside of YunoHost)... but then I set up the subdomains photos.elenarossini.com for my self-hosted Pixelfed and videos.elenarossini.com for my self-hosted PeerTube 🤗
@TimeLime just one quick addendum: in your case I wouldn't edit/tweak TXT and MX records for your top level domain, since they're connected to Proton. But it's a good idea to ask in the forum what to do
@_elena @shollyethan @ilja @yunohost
about to give this a try! thanks!
@_elena @shollyethan @ilja @yunohost
Thanks for the reminder to donate!
Done.
@_elena
Bookmarked and boosted!
@_elena great guide and screenshotsfor everything
Get free SSL certificate, estimated time 1 minute - how cool
@bradley thank you Bradley. I have to say, YunoHost's own guide is amazing but I wanted to write something super visual for true newbies... the kind of stuff I wish was around a year ago when I was researching self-hosting.
And yes, the speed of SSL certificate installation is incredible!
And thank you for this guide, I will use the part about installing your own domain name.
I use the free Yunohost domain name, but when I wanted to set my own domain name, the instructions were a little ambiguous.
So I will go over your guide, à tête reposée, to finally set up my own carefully nerdishly picked domain name.
@MichelPatrice yay! let me know how it goes Michel... and I'm curious about that domain name 😊
Je regarderai ce problème de nom de domaine probablement dans le temps des fêtes, j'aurai probablement un peu de temps libre.
Setting a separate admin.yourdomain.com is a nice idea.
One thing I discovered when first installing Yunohost : you can use a free Yunohost domain name, but chose your name carefully, because you can only pick one free domain name.
@MichelPatrice good point! I didn't mention free domain names because I believe owning your own domain name is far more empowering - than depending on an external free service.
I personally do domain name registrar hopping: get a great deal, then if prices increase the next year, I change registrar because you can always find cheaper deals... but that's just me. gotta run out now, thanks Michel!
Have a nice day with your little one.
@_elena @shollyethan @ilja @yunohost Thanks, that looks similar to the way I tested it a few days ago on my local dev machine in Qemu, but I haven't set up firewall and DynDns yet.
So for now I can only test .local installations like searx, yacy, piped, peertube, anarchism etc.
I'm glad I didn't tried to install it on my regular machine, that would make it unusable, with freedombox a parallel setup seems possible.
At the end I want to have two Peertubes, one at home and one for production.
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