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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...

Fediverse Capable Chat Matrix Social Media Mastodon Lemmy Podcast (Castopod) The intention behind hosting this is a place for Xan and Rage to test their podcast creation someplace. "If you build it, they will come" Misc Library Wiki Note can a...

Rules Concepts This is a place created for people to express themselves and how they feel, to be their true selves without worry of being judged. The rules and policies should reflect this. Encourage people to discuss without hate. Focus on why you feel a cert...

Foundation This community is to be designed to give people a place to be free of judgement and express their true self, while connecting with other people in an honest and open way. We aren't here to become internet famous or generate likes and views on our co...

BTRFS and Snapshots Subvolumes and Compression

Consider implementing warm and cold storage similar to what we do at work. Cold storage would be a backup to opendrive for anything older than a month or so old. Warm storage is the 16TB hard drive in my server, where everything hangs out for awhile. Consider ...

Consider a storage solution. Script a cron task that will change ownership of uploaded pictures and move them to the appropriate folders.

Old Benji Ate the tainted fish, has scaley patches of skin, the rest is cracked and sickly looking. will rant and rave about the true gods of old coming back basically an old truther rejects spirits and yo-kai as false gods dreams of eldrich horrors and a ...