Good morning Fedi friends

[pierricd@mastodon.green]

@elena i think you're ready to graduate to hosting with docker containers in a vanilla Linux distribution (debian is perfectly adequate) with automated nightly backups. Then your weekly ritual can become: have the backups run ok those last days? Yes, okay, moving on. (Plus, sometimes, check the backups actually work, of course).
I enjoyed yunohost as well, but in the end, there's nothing like deploying docker containers (usually takes a minute to try a new one... If everything goes well)

[patpro@social.patpro.net]

@elena GtS upgrades/updates are so piece-of-cake. They do a terrific job making them absolutely painless.

[elena@aseachange.com]

@patpro yes indeed! I’m so grateful to tobi and the whole GoToSocial team 🙏

[elena@aseachange.com]

@PierricD sorry but I’m not at all interested in Docker. Tinkered with it last year but I’m really afraid for security reasons and stuff…

[elena@aseachange.com]

#YunoHost App Upgrades - Progress Report:

I successfully upgraded all the apps EXCEPT for PeerTube and Pixelfed because of reports of bugs/failures on their respective GitHub pages.

PeerTube: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/peertube_ynh/issues

Pixelfed: https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/pixelfed_ynh/issues

I will wait another week for #PeerTube since my channel is so essential, running the Fediverse promo video and all...

I haven't been using Pixelfed all that much but I don't wanna break anything, so I will keep it as it is.

Life of a self-hoster: never a dull day 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

[elettrona@poliversity.it]

@elena I've suspended experiments temporarily; I read about Gotosocial updated to 0,21 but there is no upgrade on YunoHost. But other apps, they're well upgraded - "sudo yunohost tools upgrade apps"

[elena@aseachange.com]

@elettrona this is because each YunoHost app has a volunteer (or a team of volunteers) manually patching packages and making them compatible with the YunoHost system. I guess they haven't had time to upgrade GoToSocial yet, but since there are no critical security issues, you should be all set. Think of it as routine app upgrades... for some you don't necessarily need the latest thing...

[nathan@ublog.hurel.me]

@elena@aseachange.com lucky you! I just updated a single nextcloud app this morning (draw.io) and it totally broke it. I manually deleted the app folder to fix stuffs and waiting for a new version of the app 🙄

[elena@aseachange.com]

@nathan Oh no I'm really sorry to hear that! Admittedly I only have office tools on it. Best of luck getting your NextCloud up and running again as it used to

[pierricd@mastodon.green]

@elena to each their own! It's totally fine. That's interesting though. I consider the use of docker containers over something like yunohost to be an improvement in security, not the other way around!

[elena@aseachange.com]

@PierricD YunoHost has pretty solid security in place...they disable root login by default and automatically set up Fail2Ban. Great for a newbie like me.

Re: Docker, I tried to set it up last year on a OVH VPS, installed Fail2Ban, went to sleep... and woke up to a message by OVH that they had deleted my server and terminated all use for me because in the middle of the night my Docker installation was compromised by bad actors.

If you know what you are doing Docker is great, but it is not necessarily beginner friendly... I'm a little traumatized by that experience 😅