Good morning Fedi friends

[elena@aseachange.com]

Good morning Fedi friends!

Monday mornings mean: my weekly ritual of manually backing up my #YunoHost installation (my VPS does automatic daily backups of the whole VPS, but I say: better safe than sorry).

This latest backup is pretty big, because of my increased use of #NextCloud. So in reverse order, from biggest to smallest we have:

1) #GoToSocial : 5.8 GB
2) #PeerTube : 4.3 GB
3) #NextCloud: 3.7 GB
4) #Pixelfed : 1.6 GB
5) #LinkStack : 92 MB
6) #Fail2Ban : 362kb

Happy #selfhosting everyone! And in case you missed it, my self-hosting guide for newbies via YunoHost is available here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/ (with 4 articles so far).

Have a great week everyone!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

[elena@aseachange.com]

Backing up things is pretty standard / low stakes.

But I just noticed that virtually ALL the apps on my #YunoHost system have available updates, which means... the hair-raising, palpitations-inducing, let's say a little prayer practice of creating a snapshot of my VPS (easy peasy) and clicking on "Upgrade" by order of importance.

#Fail2Ban and #LinkStack were pretty low stakes - done, no sweat. Plus I love how YunoHost creates backups before upgrading, so you can always revert back if something goes wrong.

Anyway, Pixelfed now and then my sacred triad of GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube.

Wish me luck! 🥵​

EDIT: newbie me is more advanced than even I would think so... I'm checking out GitHub's YunoHost page for each app I want to upgrade. Apparently the Pixelfed package has issues so I'm not touching that 😅​

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

Now checking out the other apps...

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

[ciara@anarres.family]

@elena you’ve got this 💜

[elena@aseachange.com]

@ciara thank you! 😅​

[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 😅

[hikingdude@mastodon.social]

@elena hmm in such situations, I think I should have chosen a hoster that allows me snapshotting, too 🤔

[elena@aseachange.com]

@hikingdude wait I wasn't aware that some VPS providers didn't allow the creation of snapshots. Really? 😩​