New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

New post: "A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirements"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-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 😅

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

[monkee@other.li]

@_elena@mastodon.social Here ​​ Take this duck with you. It will protect you! ​​

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[ton@m.tzyl.eu]

@_elena So gonna read this. Thank you. I'm using @yunohost (on Hetzner) but it is still a struggle bc various things keep not woring (regularly can't update mastodon e.g.)

[ticho@mas.to]

@_elena @yunohost As long as your guide does not try to paper over the painful fact that self-hosting is not an once-and-done affair, but rather a continuous commitment, since the hosted services absolutely *need* to be maintained, you're OK in my book. :) 👍

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[lioh@social.anoxinon.de]

@ticho auto-updates are your friend @_elena @yunohost

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[magpieluvseeds@mastodon.social]

@_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!

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[totalsonic@mastodon.social]

@_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.

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[sknob@mamot.fr]

@_elena @yunohost
I’ve been resisting the urge to switch to self hosting, but you’re making it *very* hard to resist 😄. Can’t wait for episode 2!

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[leonieke@squilla.vitaulium.eu]

@_elena @sknob Welcome to the dark side!

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[eelcoa@mastodon.nl]

@_elena @yunohost Very nice, wel written blogpost about #yunohost for #newbies

Even though I consider myself to be a #techie, I still feel a bit uncertain about selfhosting. You post made me decide to finally go for it. Thanks!

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[semitones@tiny.tilde.website]

@_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