Learn to self host now.

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@vkc While it's occasionally frustrating, I overall love it. Use Immich and Emby and Syncthing and NextCloud every single day.

[lgsp@social.tchncs.de]

@vkc

Serious question: why do you say, so? Why now?

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@vkc @daria

I lean towards basing it on how tied you are to that VPS. If your VPS provider decides to suddenly double the price, or decides that your site is Bad™ and terminates it, how quickly can you migrate to a different host (whether VPS or home)?

Some of us don't have the luxury of much ISP competition, so I'm wary of running things from home, putting that connection at the mercy of our ISP's fickle whims.

(and tbh, I'm pretty tied to my VPS providers, and should take steps to untie those)

[blauertee@berlin.social]

@vkc @daria
Hmm depending on what you wanna host, and who you wanna reach, you could do it on i2p or reticulum.

[linux@mivatter.com]

I would say.... Learn to self‑host remotely.

If you’re American, the last thing you want is for everything to be stored locally on your computer and easily taken.

Due process is clearly out the window. Your rights to privacy and personal property are gone, too. People detained by ICE lose their phones and are never given them back. Your personal computer can also be seized.

Yes, host things yourself — but do it outside U.S. jurisdiction. That means avoiding large corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Choose infrastructure overseas, where your government cannot simply claim your data or hardware.


@vkc@linuxmom.net

[mason@partychickens.net]

@vkc It's probably worth distinguishing between services to better scope the project, especially since various projects will require varying levels of public exposure and various kinds of resources.

I'd recommend starting people off with building their own firewall so they're less at risk from their own ISPs. This will be really good practice for setting up complex services like email.

#selfhosting

[pthane@toot.wales]

@vkc
I did. When it wasn't really necessary but just seemed interesting. Nothing fancy, just Nextcloud on an old desktop machine lurking in a garden shed.

[meznor@mstdn.social]

@elena @yunohost @beaufils @vkc ❤️ 😀 y'all are the best, thank you!!

[mausmalone@mastodon.social]

@vkc it's not the server that seems tough to me - it's the networking.

For now, I'm satisfied to keep my website on a hosting service in the EU (which was a very intentional choice).

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@lgsp @vkc Age verification. Jeff Bezos wants to kill local computing in favour of cloud and AI computing.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@santiago @vkc It is certainly time to install Linux and opensource software and learn how to use it... I am tending towars Fedora. But I look towards Debians, CachyOS and other linuxes.

[canleaf@mastodon.social]

@vkc Last year, I moved URLs and Mail server from AWS cloud to Hetzner and started to host my own Mailcow instance, all on baremetal. Maybe I will expand to more services.

[cubeofcheese@mstdn.social]

@redliria @vkc do you know if yunohost allows dedicating subdomains to different services?

Ie
Nextcloud.example.com
Wiki.example.com

[old_hippie@veganism.social]

@vkc My son and I have all our parts together for a media server. We'll use Linux (haven't decided on which one) and OpenCloud. We're really excited to get our entire family off of Google.

[vkc@linuxmom.net]

@lgsp search is going to continue to degrade until it's hard to learn these skills, and quite obviously the robber barons of the cloud don't want us to have alternatives to them.

[walsonde@antifa.style]

@vkc Where? Got any recommendation for a good place to start learning?

[bencotterill@mastodon.social]

@vkc Sounds odd but I’ve lost a server. Honestly don’t know where it’s gone.

[bobthcowboy@fosstodon.org]

@vkc @daria I'd love to hear/read your thoughts on Pangolin - what do you host behind it, how do you find administering it, etc. I've got a couple services (#TandoorRecipes!) I'd like to share with people who I don't necessarily want to have to run Wireguard for...

[kotking@blorbo.social]

@old_hippie @vkc If you want newbie and hassle free experience then yunohost is really good option.
I have really little experience but had to look after freebsd server 5+ years ago, last year decided to make media server and try out yunohost...
If Freebsd is your typical Linux experience then Yunohost is your any modern appstore experience. Install from recommended and 90% already done with 10% the extra management you should do (some are for security reasons as well).
So depending on your needs you might look at other options as yunohost skips most of the hassles setting up server has but from managing Freebsd, understanding Linux on deper level(or having good guides explaining what is what) is really useful when things go wrong.

[aaron@chirp.zadzmo.org]

@52fighters How to implement something turnkey would vary dramatically with _what_ you want to self host.

I've been so far down this rabbit hole for so long I don't know what a typical non-technical user needs or wants. I'm guessing it varies person to person.

@vkc @Meznor