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🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 100 (milestones edition) 🎊
Good morning Fedi friends!
Today I'm filled with gratitude as I think back about all the ways I have changed - and become more empowered - since I installed @yunohost on my VPS on December 17, 2024.
The biggest difference is my state of mind. For example, yesterday I started using #PeerTube, after setting up an account on the instance MakerTube. I am enjoying it IMMENSELY. I uploaded a couple of my videos there but then immediately thought: I should set up my own instance!
If you had told me 4 months ago that one day I would be a couple of clicks away from setting up my own PeerTube, I would have thought you were hallucinating. But #YunoHost has given me this power and confidence – for which I am infinitely grateful.
Since early February 2025 I have also gotten a bit of experience installing things on a separate VPS with command lines. Even if my self-hosted Ghost blog has given me lemons so far (Mastodon Hug of Death, you're to blame for this!) I am undeterred. I will try tweaking my NGINX settings next week, to set up a reverse proxy and increase my cache. Or heck, I could block Mastodon preview card requests and all my problems would go away. (If someone knows how to do that, please let me know!)
100 days of self-hosting, wow! I feel like a completely different person. Digital sovereignty rocks.
What are my goals for the next 100 days?
1) solving my self-hosted Ghost blog troubles
2) getting an education in caching, reverse proxies and the like
3) setting up my PeerTube instance
Thank you for encouraging me to go on this journey and for all your incredible advice and generous offers to help. This is truly the best community ❤️
#MySoCalledSudoLife #YunoHost
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@elena Your journey in self-hosting is really inspiring! Especially sharing the ups and downs but keeping the big picture and perspective in mind. You have come very far in „just a few months“. This is an inspiration for me (and hopefully others as well). Please keep sharing your journey! On to the next 100 days!
@csett86 Thank you Christoph ☺️
If I were to be more specific, I'd say that my experience with my Debian VPS and #YunoHost is 100/100. I'm hosting #GoToSocial, #Friendica, #Pixelfed and #LinkStack there... Maybe soon #PeerTube (gotta upgrade to a slightly more powerful plan).
My Ubuntu VPS that has #Ghost was a 80/100 most days - which dropped down to 20/100 because of the Mastodon Hug of Death.
Not too bad, I'd say overall 🙃