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In Australia:

https://reebelo.com.au/

The open-source alternative to Mailchimp, Brevo, Mailjet, Listmonk, Mailerlite, and Klaviyo, Loop.so, etc.

That’s the first paragraph of the project page.

Not to rain on the parade, but in my experience, having had to email customers in bulk … sending tickets and logistics requirements for large events … I can tell you that self hosting this is a complete and utter waste of time.

You’ll get blocked before the first batch of emails leave your mailer.

Not even paid MailChimp or Campaign Monitor could guarantee delivery.

The problem is not the platform for sending email, it’s the centralised nature of email hosting, much of it is behind Google and Microsoft hosted services.

Docker is not virtualisation, although it’s a common misconception.

A better way to think of it is a security wrapper around untrusted processes.

You can prove this for yourself by looking at all the processes running in a Docker host while one or more containers are running, you’ll see all the processes listed.

In other words, you don’t need a CPU capable of virtualisation to run Docker.

Use a bash command line:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250698/how-to-decode-url-encoded-string-in-shell

When I last played with this a decade or so ago, there were several map tiling solutions in the geosciences that are self hosted.

From memory, “World Wind” is a good search term, but there’s others.

I use sshfs.

A till.

And an accounting package.

No hosting required.

There’s hundreds, here’s a few tiny ones:

• https://luc.devroye.org/fonts-51468.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20250514212230/https://robey.lag.net/2010/01/23/tiny-monospace-font.html
• https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
• https://littlelimit.net/misaki.htm
• https://zserge.com/posts/tiny-font/

Example of discussion on the topic:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38799686#38802243

As an alternative, the 8-bit world has been doing this for a very … long … time.

Apologies, I accidentally reported your comment as “spam or abuse” … it’s not, you are correct. My Lemmy client UI has some … issues.

With?

I run projects inside Docker on a VM away from important data. It allows me to test and restrict access to specific things of my choosing.

It works well for me.

I’ve never used the tool, but I’m guessing that your Oracle database can create an SQL dump of its schema which presumably is how this tool ingests a database to chart.

If that’s how you want to run your server that’s your choice, but if it were me, I’d think long and hard about the legal implications of doing this.

So far you’ve not said anything about what you’re trying to achieve and that’s not helping.

What specifically are you attempting to achieve, because right now, what little you have shared sends up red flags and rings the alarm bells … loudly.

What actual problem are you attempting to solve?

If you want pihole blocking away from your LAN, set the DNS for the device to adguard and be done with it.

If you’re trying to do something else, give us some context.

Are you happy?

Skirting the edge of self hosting, I was faced with this question last month. I ended up with a Ubiquity UCG Ultra. It has all the network management tools on-board and for the first time in a long time I can manage my network from anywhere on the planet.

Access can be via a web UI, or an app.

The boundary of where to host what, is not fixed. You cannot host the internet at home. Where people sit on the spectrum varies depending on skill, resources and need.

I highlighted several options that provide a solution for someone with limited skills and resources.

You could host a CALDAV server or a next cloud at home and use the suggestions I provided, or you could use those hosted by someone else.

My answer was to provide ideas, not a how-to guide, answering, in my opinion, exactly what OP was looking for.

That it doesn’t match your idea about solving the problem tells you that there are many ways to solve software problems. My suggestions had a low barrier to entry.

What’s your recommendation for OP?