it’s active disinformation campaigns and propaganda.

That’s for me to decide, not for you to decide on my behalf.

Edit:

Their instance continues to exist without us, their free speech continues, but by remaining federated we are giving them a platform.

This entire ideology is bullshit and I am not interested in being on instances run by people who believe it.

Not the above guy but I believe it’s a database.

I’m ever so slowly teaching myself Zabbix, need something full-featured because I also need monitoring for my hosting clients etc

That’s awesome :)

I started by self-hosting an autoDJ to pipe music into Second Life, later did a weekly show on a tiny internet radio station for maybe 18 months … trying to make a name in order to get a DJ spot on-air at a local community radio station that was indie/alt-rock format at the time. Sadly my life took a turn and the community station changed hands and changed formats, but it was a cool experience nonetheless!

You might also check out rathole as it is very easy to use: https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

oh nice. somebody else who’s done internet radio!

holy crap, that was … … … … 25 years ago???

I don’t honestly remember the very first, if I had to bet I’d say it was Samba, likely on my 350MHz K6 (later snagged a K6-III+ for this board, fastest Socket 7 chip ever produced) so I could share files with my laptop, a Dell, 300MHz Celeron. Running all Linux at the time, not sure what flavors, although I first encountered a Debian derivative with Corel LinuxOS believe it or not, and have used Debian on servers about 95% of the time forever after.

My first self-hosting on dedicated hardware was a Samba share and DHCP/DNS server, since at the time routers weren’t always a thing, and in fact it was plugged directly into the cable modem … and for a while accidentally served competing DHCP to my neighborhood cable segment, causing intermittent problems for who knows how many users including myself, because the cable company didn’t filter broadcast traffic!!! When I finally found that config mishap, holy shit was it an awkward monkey moment … fix the typo and walk away slowly … wild west days!!

You can go a looong way hosting stuff on ultra-small form factor business PCs

Basically, subs with anti-corpo principles but refuses to leave corpo Reddit.

See also: Discord

I use .lan for everything the router can resolve names for, and .local for Avahi mDNS 😈

I’m currently running 16GB zramswap on my 32GB server, and 24GB on Optane / 3D XPoint on my 64GB server 😈

Same, but I’ve never once touched Docker and am doing everything old skool on top of Proxmox. Others may or may not like this approach, but it has many of the benefits in terms of productivity (ease of experimentation, migration, upgrade etc)

Go with used & refurb business PCs right out of the gate instead of fucking around with SBCs like the Pi.

Go with “1-liter” aka Ultra Small Form Factor right away instead of starting with SFF. (I don’t have a permanent residence at the moment so this makes sense for me)

They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.

Recent comments from the CEO confirm it. Bloodless money-grubbing techbro shitbag.

Matrix is awful.

I will say that they have been putting a lot of effort into making it better, and it is better than it was, for sure. But it still sucks.

I’m picky about software FWIW. Maybe in another couple years they’ll have basic UX, security, and performance figured out.

PiVPN on VPS works great btw

I’m curious if leaving the data-at-rest encrypted on the filesystem using something like EncFS would mostly solve this. (EncFS encrypts all the files on disk and gives you a mount point to access the corresponding cleartext filesystem)

haha this is amazing, I made similar comments in 3 threads or so, and people commented back about OptiPlex SFF in all of 'em :D

when I first started doing this again for real about 3 years ago, I built a stack of 3x OptiPlex SFF that I got from pcsforpeople.com (discount refurb gear for po’ folk), plus an Amazon refurb. I’ve started migrating to the “1-liter” USFF business PCs, but I still have the best of the OptiPlex SFFs - an i7-4770 with 32GB of RAM which now is my database server and NAS box.

It’s amazing how well the high-end 4xxx Intel chips still hold their own a decade after their release.

For people who don’t like cloudflare, it’s also possible to self-host your reverse proxy, using e.g. nginx on the front end, and rathole or frp for the reverse tunnel. I use ssh if I need a forward proxy too (so outbound requests don’t come from my “real” IP) and that’s not super ideal, but it works.

This is of course considerably more difficult than something that’s point-and-click, but for me, using Cloudflare defeats the purpose of self-hosting.

I have built & rebuilt such a setup several times now and it gets better documented every time, soon I’ll release a step by step HOWTO.

FWIW, I haven’t seen a similar change from Ramnode after they sold to InMotion. They still seem quite good, and I’m picky. A bit more info on my experience (plus my affiliate code) upthread.