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109 pointsbookofjoe17 comments

I use Yunohost, its a great tool for deployment on a small VPS instance.

Some of the apps though require a bit more RAM/CPU but if you stick with email, git and Ghost Blog CMS, then its a great tool to minimise sysadmin overhead.

Been using YunoHost for a couple years now on two different bare metal servers.

I even use one of them for running my own mail server (only deliverability issues I’ve had have been with Microsoft, but got them quickly resolved). Never had any security issues either.

I have also worked on packaging a few apps for the catalog, and it is way easier than creating your own ppa for Debian based distros. The apps and their data can also be backed up automagically.

I looked at this and Cloudron to replace some Docker Compose services I’ve had set up. YunoHost is great because it’s free, but it doesn’t have the same support or feature set as Cloudron. But… Cloudron is $30/mo (plus the cost of the server you use!) if you don’t pay annually. I’m kinda torn. I love the idea of the built-in backups, with, etc but neither option is great.

Just note that Cloudron is not open source (used to be) if this is something that you would care about.

Meanwhile Yunohost uses copyleft licenses (AGPL and GPL)!

Cloudron is source available - git.cloudron.io

I have a setup like this:

- OCI free tier VPS with static ipv4 and ipv6, haproxy proxying requests over wireguard to my old laptop at home

- the old laptop at home running the show. Debian, Docker, ZFS. 16 GB of RAM is enough to host all I need for personal use. Battery is a built-in UPS.

I can even move this laptop and keep it connected via LTE. The laptop cost me 60 eur (Thinkpad T430 with i5), RAM upgrade to 16 GB about 20 euros and 2x1 TB SSDs for the ZFS mirror about 100 euros. Best setup I ever had.

I thought my VPS was cheap at $12 per year

> A computer to read this guide, flash the image and access your server.

chuckle

It took me a lot of reboots to bring up a PPPoE connection on Fedore Core 3

Not sure if you just resurrected a fond memory or childhood trauma.

I can vividly remember dual booting and only having Internet access on the Windows install at first. DSL felt pretty fast!

Boot Windows, grab some info, reboot into Linux, get stuck, reboot, repeat.

I love self-hosting, but I've never been satisfied with the file management software that's out there. Still pay for Dropbox because of that.

What did you try?

While I agree nothing works perfectly, FileRun or SeaFile does at least work more reliably than NextCloud, though there aren't as many integrations as NextCloud has.

I tried all three of those and found something to dislike about each of them, haha. Just picky, I guess.

After a lot of back and forth I went with a simple syncthing everywhere. Lightweight, no server, easy to use, all files are replicated. It sounds like I'd need a lot of storage space but it's not that much and in the end it forces me to think about whether everything is worth remembering. "Losing" data that turned out to not be that important definitively lifts a weight off your shoulders

Sounds like a good solution. I used Resilio Sync for a while for similar reasons

How does this compare to something like Virtualmin, which has done what I need for many years (though I am starting to move to caddy somewhat).

Good experience so far, check their curated catalog out

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