The fourth article in my series about “self-hosting for newbies” explaining how I take care of backups for my YunoHost server.
In part one, I explained why I’m passionate about self-hosting and I discussed what you need to get started on this journey (a VPS and a domain name)
You didn’t need either of those things. This reads like an ad for yunohost.
I have used (and loved) Yunohost for a long time, and I host it at home. A few years back, I did set up a vps to proxy the traffic (over wireguard) so that I could actually get a letsencrypt cert. Some apps really don’t like self-signed certs.
You do not need a VPS, proxy, or wireguard for letsencrypt.
I don’t remember exactly why, but I couldn’t get it to work any other way. First problem was incoming port 80 blocked by my ISP.
You are right, you don’t need yunohost, but it makes selfhosting pretty easy.
send from my piefed instance hosted by yunohost ^^
No, it’s legit. Elena has been tooting and peertubing about the fedi and her self hosting journey for over a year.
It still reads like an ad for yunohost…
I think one of the mistakes many newb self hosters make is thinking of systems in their entirety rather than as components.
“How to install pihole on a raspberry pi” and “how to setup nextcloud on yunohost” are examples. All using very specific tools and very specific steps.
I’m noticing this more and more with documentation for apps where they tell me to use their specific docker-compose file and have instructions to use let’s encrypt in a specific way rather than referring you to let’s encrypt as an option and pointing you at their docs.
People aren’t learning how to use each of these tools and how to be flexible in their implementation.
It still reads like an ad for yunohost…
An ad for what, exactly? Yunohost doesn’t have anything to sell you…
Sometimes people are just passionate about things. Like digital sovereignty.
People aren’t learning how to use each of these tools and how to be flexible in their implementation.
Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go. I don’t have time for a new career. If it weren’t for YNH I wouldn’t be hosting at all. And it’s not for lack of trying. Shit is complicated.
Sometimes people are just passionate about things. Like digital sovereignty.
🙄
Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go. I don’t have time for a new career. If it weren’t for YNH I wouldn’t be hosting at all. And it’s not for lack of trying. Shit is complicated.
I’m always a little surprised when people are passionate about being ignorant.
I am too, which is why your comments are so surprising.
Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go.
Yeah - I’m the one wallowing in ignorance.
Yes, you’re the one ignorant of the fact that people want (and should have) digital sovereignty without needing a software engineering degree.
How can something be an ad when there is nothing to sell?
“Reads like an ad” - see also “simile”.
In germany when we say, sounds like, looks like or reads like, we mean it is. Sorry when i misunderstood.
That’s fair - I’ll keep that in mind in the future to be more clear.
Depends highly on the people. I learned that way, to get started with recipes enabled me to get early successes which in turn motivated me.
Down the road I needed different things from my setup, which could not be found in a simple recipe anymore, so I needed to learn the parts of the machine.
Exactly. Both newbies and experienced admins aren’t always looking for a general summary on how to build something. Sometimes we need a direct, easy guide to build the tool we’ve already decided to implement. Let them read the documentation so I don’t have to.
Let them read the documentation so I don’t have to.
Exactly why the article promotes stupidity. Why in the world would you put those words down proudly?
selfhosting
yunohost
pick one.
reads about the correct pronunciation
couple paragraphs below, still pronounces YunoHost the same wrong way
dammit
