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Self hosting is serving your own web apps from a computer you own and maintain yourself.

A problem I encountered was trying to configure port forwarding on a simple office network.I had failed to realize though that both the cable modem and the all-in-one consumer router I had both had firewalls of their own.One thing to always check for in these ...

Backup File Server One of my more clever concepts was repurposing an old desktop computer to serve as a file server that all of the computers on the local network send their weekly backups to. All you need is a lot of storage space. Consider the following: Nu...

Often times this process encounters issues. At the time of this writing, it's not possible to move your content (i.e. posts) from server to server. However it is possible to push/pull your followers, muted/blocked filters & domains, and your bookmarks. Obtaini...

Debian Based Debian itself had a recent and very positive release called Bookworm. MX Linux is still in beta for this release. Ubuntu: replacing Debian packages with snaps is proving to be unpopular and costly for performance. This is especially inconvenie...

Using Portainer is helpful to manage your docker with a GUI! Docker-Compose stuff is stored under "stacks" Nginx Proxy Manager handles reverse proxy and lets encrypt for all the services I want to host Composerize helps convert docker run commands into docke...

An amazingly sophisticated twitch VOD saver. It renders chat alongside the VOD. My local instance: https://vods.stefenauris.com/ Project info: https://github.com/Zibbp/ganymede 

Reverse Proxying Reverse Proxying is the secret to making self-hosting work. It acts as a multiplexer for web services. Since when you access a website it makes requests on port 80 (for standard http). It will be intercepted by the reverse proxy server. Depend...

Domain Select a Provider Ideal Domain: theheartlands.us Google is discontinuing their domain registrar, and I don't trust that company to maintain anything anymore. Hosting Select Provider Digital ocean has excellent documentation Must be Linux Based cap...