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

[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.

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@TotalSonic I would highly highly recommend picking GoToSocial instead… I feel like it’s the hidden gem of the Fediverse. You set your own character limit, number of photos, poll options, custom emojis etc…

[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!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@sknob oh my! You may go down a rabbit hole... like me. I'm now addicted to self-hosting and always on the lookout for a new thing to add to my stack 😅

[leonieke@squilla.vitaulium.eu]

@_elena @sknob Welcome to the dark side!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@leonieke @sknob I would personally call it the brightest side 😂😂😂

[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!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@eelcoa yes, that's going to be post no.4. Thank you and wishing you all the best with your self-hosting endeavors (warning: it's quite addictive)

[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

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@semitones yes of course! I plan to cover this in part 4. As for costs, I never went above 5 Euros a month, even when traffic / bandwidth usage was high because of my PeerTube video being shared widely…