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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[lioh@social.anoxinon.de]

@_elena it's really great. I have written several guides and even created a video on YunoHost https://gnulinux.ch/selfhosting-mit-yunohost - they are in German but it should be easy to understand. This one I am particularly proud of as it allows you to set up your own Server with YunoHost on an old otherwise maybe unused Laptop at home: https://gnulinux.ch/yunohost-installation-auf-einem-laptop @ticho

[hunterz@mastodon.sdf.org]

@_elena @yunohost is it possible to change how long a login session lasts before it forces you to reenter your credentials? I asked on the forum but got no response.

[homegrown@social.growyourown.services]

@_elena @yunohost

Thank you Elena! And thank you Yunohost! 👏

[liamcollod@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@_elena @yunohost thanks bookmarked !

Another interesting point to explore with VPS is their T.O.S. Despite self-hosting we don't own fully the data and its existence rely on the will of the VPS provider. If the provider decide you break their T.O.S it's game-over again.
For example V.PS, netcup and Hetzner forbide storing pornographic content which may be seen as a red-flag (also see https://tenforward.blog/hetzner-considered-hostile-a-psa/).

[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!

[caffetino@social.pikaia.org]

@_elena @yunohost brava! 👏👏

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[jon@henshaw.social]

@_elena @yunohost

Definitely bookmarking this!

[mosgaard@uddannelse.social]

@_elena this is such a great approach, thank you for sharing! I don't really have the need right now, but it kind of make we want to do it anyway :D

[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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