Successfully updated my instance’s host from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS.

Ran into a dependency issue after reboot, but ‘bundle install —force’ fixed it.

All is well.

Folks who run their own #selfhosted #git services: tell me about how your #backups work. #selfhosting #git #gitolite #forgejo #gitea #gogs

I see why people hate on Ansible a bit. It has it's nuances, the community modules are helpful but lack any real documentation when shit goes wrong. You can do the same thing 48 different ways.. Still great and easy, but I can understand why NixOS exists hahah

interesting, so pihole version 6 has gotten rid of lighttpd webserver? so my notes from last time setting things up are now useless

An SSD failed in my media server today. In case you are curious this is how I keep track of what I did, when, and why to my fleet of machines.

The backlinking in Obsidian is crucial for this format to work.

So the #synology X25 refresh lineup just popped out. Should be arriving in May.

RS2825RP+ (AMD V1780B, 10GbE)
DS1825xs+ (AMD V1780B, 10GbE)
DS1825+ (AMD V1500B, 2x 2.5GbE)
DS1525+ (AMD V1500B, 2x 2.5GbE)
DS925+ (AMD V1500B, 2x 2.5GbE)
DS725+ (AMD R1600, 1x 2.5GbE)
DS425+ (Intel J4125, 1x 2.5GbE)
DS225+ (Intel J4125, 1x 2.5GbE)
DS625slim (Intel J4125, 1x 2.5GbE)

Nothing major apart from network and RAM upgrades. Steady as always

#selfhosting #selfhost #homelab #NAS

https://www.blackvoid.club/new-x25-synology-model-lineup/

lets see how long it takes to get the next sd card fried

This setup is definitely just a temporary solution. I will improve things when I have more time.

Managed to install the headless OS, set up ssh and add my ssh key.

unfortunately I can't get more than this done on a weekday evening

TBC

I thought my old home server was not the cause of some of my problems because its resource consumption rarely reached 50% CPU and RAM. However, the new one, a much more powerful server displays streaming video and runs all other services for the local network at lightning speed.

I still have a lot to learn about home server hardware.

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 84

After spending 24 hours doing Olympic-level mental gymnastics, trying to find a way to self-host my videos NOT on PeerTube (I considered Wordpress's VideoPress, embedding videos from NextCloud, uploading straight to Ghost...) I have capitulated.

Yes I will go with #PeerTube.

Deciding factor: the need to have subtitles (not so easy if you host your own videos).

So yes I will set up my own instance (it would cost as much as donating to an admin... because video hosting/streaming is resource intensive).

Oh dear I will have ANOTHER Fediverse account in addition to Mastodon, GoToSocial, Pixelfed, Friendica, Sharkey, Misskey, Lemmy, MBin and PieFed. I need to sit with this thought for a bit ​

Folks, video is HARD (making videos and distributing them, that is)

Edit: SPECIAL THANKS to @stereo @Bro666 @erick who offered incredible advice (while I was doing my mental gymnastics). I really appreciate your help! ​

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 83

Dear Fedi friends, do you have any experience with #Wordpress and their paid add-on #VideoPress – that allows you to basically turn your Wordpress site into a streaming hub for your videos?

https://videopress.com

This week I'm exploring self-hosting videos on PeerTube and also via other options (Wordpress, Ghost, etc.).

I just heard about VideoPress and I haven't come across anyone using it, so I'm curious ​

#AskFedi

#selfhosting #installation session for @loveyoumore. #manjaro #linux #odoo #azuracast

Ok last linux desktop question! What browser do y'all use! Just raw dawg firefox! or is there other interesting shit out there

Be honest, how much suffering am I in for if I try to move to a self-hosted instance, what sort of VPS hardware would it eat up etc?

I really just...want to use my own emotes. Look at her/me...stunning

I would call this a big success. A valid, trusted certificate, signed by Let's Encrypt, without ever exposing a single port to the public internet. Just what I needed. I can't believe how easy it is to do this with #Caddy. They weren't lying when they said you barely needed any configuration. What an incredible program!

And another successful round of home- and colo-lab maintainance:

- Updated Proxmox VE servers to v.8.3.4
- Updated Proxmox backup server to v.3.3.3
- Updated all Debian/GNU Linux servers (including the
burningboard.net Mastodon instance) with the latest patches and rebooted them
- Updated Red Hat Satellite to version 6.16.3 on RHEL9
- Updated all Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora and CentOS-Stream systems with Satellite+Ansible and rebooted them
- Updated my Raspberry PI 4 with Home-Assustant to the latest version 2025.3.1

According to Grafana+Loki dashboards and checkmk, everything is running smoothly and is operational :)

Thanks to the power of automation with Ansible, all of this just took roughly 25 minutes to do.