#selfhosting

Anybody ever had problems with an #iphone and #IMAP on a #selfhosted #email server? Feel free to boost for fun.

I was just helping my wife and her mail app (iPhone 13, iOS 18.3.2) would just spin saying “connecting”. I’m standing next to her, with my iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 18.3.2 and I’m on the same WiFi checking email on the same server just fine.

I tried a bunch of things. Rebooting, using cellular data instead of WiFi, closing the mail app and opening it again. Nothing fixed it. The root cause seems to have been low power mode. Her battery was low; so the phone was in low power mode. I plugged it in, took it out of low power mode, and poof! Mail connects just fine.

This is reproducible. If I go to low power mode and pull down on the screen to try to fetch, no imap. It just spins saying “connecting.” Come out of low power mode, imap is fine and fast. One thing we both do that is not the default is fetch email. The default is to push, and the phone polls quite often. I figure that’s a waste of battery, so we have ours set to fetch every 30 minutes. I’m a bit of a nut, so there are probably LOTS of other things that are not the default.

Anybody have any ideas?

I’m sure all of us have used low power mode before, and I’m fairly sure I’ve checked email under low power mode. I’ve never seen this before. #selfhosting

#Introduction
Привет всем! Меня зовут Николай, или же 22LR и еще под никнеймом Nitrous, и я решил немного рассказать о себе.
Мои увлечения — это настоящая смесь адреналина, творчества и технологий:
Руфинг — люблю исследовать город с высоты, делать крутые фотографии с крыш и наслаждаться видами, которые недоступны большинству.
Фотографии с крыш — стараюсь запечатлеть моменты, которые передают дух города и его атмосферу.
Побеги от охраны — иногда приходится включать режим "паркур" и спасаться от охраны, чтобы сохранить свои приключения в тайне.
Geometry Dash — обожаю эту игру, она помогает расслабиться и прокачать реакцию.
Selfhosting — изучаю, как хостить свои проекты и сервисы, чтобы быть независимым от сторонних платформ.
Wardriving — иногда занимаюсь исследованием Wi-Fi сетей, чтобы лучше понимать, как устроены технологии вокруг нас.

Я всегда открыт для общения, новых знакомств и обмена опытом. Если у вас есть схожие интересы или просто хотите поболтать — пишите!
#руфинг #roof #roofing #фотография #photo #photography #selfhosting #geometrydash #wardriving

I have a mini Intel Atom-powered home server in my house.

However, I’ve overlooked two things:

How do I back up data and keep it safe (from both security and quality perspectives)?

I’m still a newbie at GnuPG Privacy Guard. How do I secure the backup of my private keys?

#gpg #gnupg #privacy #security #homeserver #server #backup #cloudstorage #datahoarding #selfhosting #linux #openbsd #freebsd

Finamp with Jellyfin as backend won for now!

The only downside is needing a Jellyfin server running. For me it’s totally fine, but it becomes hard to recommend to someone who isn’t into #SelfHosting

I need to understand the best way around directory structure and permissions. Right now it is like:
SSD mounted into /mount/ssd,
Then /mount/ssd/jellyfin-libraries bind mounted on /mount/jellyfin-libraries with rw access for jellyfin group, so I don’t give full access to whole ssd.

There has to be some kind of #selfhosting thing I can use to combine data from #patreon, #kofi, and ideally YouTube and Twitch?

I want a single "support me" page on my own site to link to that has some details on total support + links to where to support me. It's 2025 I can't depend on any one corpo site and ideally, I wouldn't use any at all.

For those who would like to invest in a #DeskPi 10-inch #minirack popularised by @geerlingguy (for #SelfHosting or a #HomeLab, for example) BUT would absolutely like to avoid giving money to Jeff Bezos, #PiHut now proposes the reference

› https://thepihut.com/products/deskpi-rackmate-t0-10-4u-mini-server-rack

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 112 (scary Ghost edition)

Hello Fedi friends!

I'm currently putting the finishing touches to a post on my brand new, self-hosted #Ghost blog (https://news.elenarossini.com).

Very soon, I will test two things:
1) the newsletter integration (hoping everything will run smoothly)
2) the "Mastodon hug of death" - aka I will post a link to it on Mastodon and I will see what happens when the article's preview card will be fetched by hundreds of Fediverse servers.

I need to go pick up my little one from nursery school in 90 minutes so pray for me everything goes smoothly ​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

@fijxu
You receive the following nerfs and buffs:
- reliability
+ no third parties
+ administration powers

#selfhosting

I tried out https://coredns.io/ for the first time and quite like it!

With a reasonably short config file, I have a hidden primary setup working; adding a new zone is just adding a text file.

Next up: generate zone contents and rsync them onto the coredns server (= DynDNS replacement)

#selfhosting #golang

Always check your backups!

#backup #sysadmin #SelfHosting #disasterrecovery

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 111 (quiet edition)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I hope you had a nice weekend.

After backing up my two VPSs I am now staring at my #YunoHost dashboard thinking: now what?

It feels a little odd not to have to tackle any pressing self-hosting issues. Everything seems to be working well, including my manual installation of Ghost on a second (Ubuntu) VPS.

I'm now in maintenance mode.

I must confess in the past 24 hours I have spent some time browsing @yunohost 's app catalogue. So many fascinating things in there! But I am exercising restraint (for now, LOL!)

I'm very grateful for all the software I'm currently self-hosting.

On Debian (via YunoHost):

#Fail2Ban
#Friendica -> https://elenarossini.fr/profile/ele/
#GoToSocial (this account!)
#LinkStack -> https://elena.social
#Pixelfed -> https://photos.elenarossini.com/ele

On Ubuntu:

Fail2Ban
My #Ghost blog/newsletter -> https://news.elenarossini.com
#Varnish cache

I'm highly aware of my privilege and how lucky I am to be doing all this. But can I confess I'm a little bored? Thankfully I may have another big project on the horizon: upgrading my VPS and installing / self-hosting #PeerTube. But that will be for another week. Resting now and enjoying this sense of empowerment / digital sovereignty. Very grateful to be in this position.

Wishing you all a fantastic week!

#MySoCalledSudoLife

@nobodyinperson
I've been doing that for over 20 years with #dovecot. For a while I even used #fetchmail to pull down emails to it.

#selfhosting

As we always take our time, latest Cloudron release v8.3 is only now fully rolled out to all. Most instances would have already gotten the update as early as 2 weeks ago.

Mostly it only contains housekeeping updates to core services: https://blog.cloudron.io/cloudron-8-3-released/

#SelfHosting #cloudron #homelab

@kafi @Torx @Pando

Ich widerspreche vehement dieser naiven Einschätzung durch @morl99 gerade weil #Microsoft sich verweigert #Office365 & #Microsoft365 so umzustrukturieren dass es #SelfHosting bzw. fully-managed Optionen gibt die nachweislich eine Compliance mit #CloudAct verunmöglichen.

Wobei iher fraglich ist ob dies überhaupt legal sein könnte und ob das #Trump-Regime überhaupt noch ansatzweise #Rechtsstaatlichkeit besitzt, angesichts Fälle von #Verschwindenlassen und illegaler, gewaltsamer #Deportationen ins "#Guantanamo bei #Bukele bestellt"...

#eMail #selfHosting gurus: I am looking for the simplest possible way to host myself a mailbox I can add to my email clients (Thunderbird, phone, etc.) as usual, so I can move mails there to free up space on the 3rd party "real" emails, then back them up separately on my server.

I do not want receiving or sending emails to work. Just an IMAP or whatever box I can shove emails in the face by dragging them in Thunderbird or with a script.

Ideally available in #NixOS

#dovecot?

@kafi @morl99 @Pando garnicht, das ist es ja!

Selbst das (seit langem eingestellte) #Microsoft365-Deutschland - Angebot mit Hosting bei der #DTAG hat die #Authentifizierung immernoch bei #Microsoft in den #USA durchgeführt, und dadurch ist immernoch #Zugriff gem. #CloudAct gegeben gewesen!

Und #SelfHosting wie bei @nextcloud & @CollaboraOffice ist bei #Office365 nicht möglich!

Anybody out there in #homelab land using #TrueNAS Scale with VMs?

I've built a nice, reliable NAS. And then I noticed that it could do VMs. Great! I thought. I have a couple different VMs running some important things like #HomeAssistant.

What I have discovered is that their VM support is terrible. Unless I misunderstand, I literally cannot do any of these things:

backup a VM
restore a VM
export a VM
import a VM
snapshot a VM

If I treat each VM like a full #linux host, I can back it up using something else (e.g., rsync). But if this was #xcp with Xen Orchestra, I'd have this whole thing solved in seconds.

I'm thinking about creating a big VM, running a nested hypervisor (XCP) and then running my VMs there. But that sounds like a huge faff. And even then, while I could snapshot the child VMs, that parent VM running the hypervisor would be hard to backup/restore.

I have plenty of RAM and spare CPU cycles on my NAS. But I've only recently understood how bad this VM support is. If I lost my HomeAssistant VM I'd cry.

Anybody have thoughts on this?
#selfhosting #selfhosted

I have published a new blog post:

An oddly interesting story about a custom PHP framework

Read it here:
https://www.danielbrendel.com/blog/31-an-oddly-interesting-story-about-a-custom-php-framework

#php #webdev #indiedev #programmer #selfhosted #selfhosting #opensource #foss

#selfhosting #freebsd - day 22

Lambing has blown my plans to have my BSD-Only by the 11th so I've had to give the damned penguin this victory but only while I bring my VPS up properly.

Here are the edited highlights...

HAProxy got set to listen to the entire ::/64 (yes, including requests from itself) this went as took longer than expected to nail down.

added blacklistd - it's so refreshing to just do a quick sysrc and edit pf.conf

SSHD - turned off legacy IP connectivity - it is always humbling to see how many boxes are trying to connect to ssh looking for an open port. I might give them a honeypot/tarpit to play in later

A hardware issue seems to have taken not one, but two 12TB drives to valhalla.