my adventures in #selfhosting - day 89

Oh #PeerTube, you are making me do mental somersaults as I strategize about the best way to self-host my videos.

This newbie wants to ask: how many VPS’s are too many for someone who has little coding experience and has been self-hosting for just 3 months?

Fedi friends, I’m thinking of signing up for a THIRD VPS

Why?

My current setup:

5€/month Debian VPS with #YunoHost, where I’m self-hosting #GoToSocial (this account), #Friendica, #Pixelfed, #Fail2Ban and #LinkStack.
5€/month Ubuntu VPS where I am self-hosting my (upcoming) #Ghost blog (this will make me save a ton, compared to my current Ghost Pro plan).

Back to PeerTube: I could easily upgrade my #Debian VPS and install it there - the costs would be minimal and I would double my RAM and storage. But I am afraid of PeerTube’s consumption when it comes to bandwidth. As in: if I upload a video that for some reason becomes really popular, or if a bad actor decides to DDOS my channel, would that take down all my other self-hosted Fediverse instances? Since they are on the same VPS?

I could limit potential issues by having a dedicated VPS just for PeerTube.

What would you do?

And do you have recommendations for Europe-based VPS’s with affordable plans? (aside from Hostinger) I was thinking of #Hetzner…

#MySoCalledSudoLife #AskFedi

I wonder how much progress the #fediverse could have and grow in quality if the @EUCommission could seriously fund good non-profit projects that already make an interoperable web possible: @Mastodon , @pixelfed , @pleroma , @peertube , @gotosocial etc.

There are talks about BILLIONS of euros to rearm Europe, which seems justified to me. But it seems that no one puts on the table how to seriously address the problem of disinformation campaigns that undermine democracies. I found the EU project EU vs Disinfo https://euvsdisinfo.eu/, but they didn't dare to create at least a profile here.

Let's perpetuate the cycle of walled gardens run by cool tech bros and their profit seeking businesses. It is very comfortable.

@tapbots

The latest iOS #Ivory update says:
"Support for AlphaNumeric Post IDs"

Does this mean full #GoToSocial support? Am I missing something? Is it even related?

(Considering to set up my own instance with having quasi-none knowledge, but the lack of Ivory's support was keeping me from even starting...)

Good morning Fedi friends!

I started the week in the best possible way: lunch with two @yunohost team members. I was trying hard not to fangirl too much

I thanked them profusely for their incredible work, empowering us all with the tools to self-host. It's thanks to #YunoHost that I have my own #Pixelfed, #GoToSocial and #Friendica accounts. I hope I'll be able to give back one day.

What else? This week I'll publish part 1 of a mini-series about #PeerTube.

Wishing you all a lovely day!

my adventures in #selfhosting - day 76

Monday morning, which means: backing up my #YunoHost setup.

I see that #GoToSocial has an update available but I'm too scared to upgrade it. Having my 4th cup of espresso and working up the courage to do it (I hear it takes a looong time). Hoping I don't break anything ​

In other news, I am LOVING my #LinkStack and having a glimpse into the links that are the most popular (LinkStack offers you a ranking in reverse order of the most clicked links when you log into their dashboard). Is anyone interested in me writing about it? For reference, here is what the front end looks like: https://elena.social

Off I go update my #GoToSocial, wish me luck!

#MySoCalledSudoLife #FOSS

Soll ich’s wirklich machen…
rausgerufen.de/soll-ichs-wirkl…

Owning my Fediverse instance seems cool, but it is difficult to populate the timeline... even public timeline is empty at start. If you have not a previous account on an instance with many users, it is difficult to find interesting Tooters.
I could migrate my phpc.social account but I don't know if I will keep this #gotosocial instance.

Good to know, if you run #gotosocial on an Intel™ N280x cpu, embedded wasm does not work. Install gotosocial-nowasm tarball and ffmpeg, ffprobe and sqlite3 packages from your distro.
Otherwise you couldn't find account with emoji in the name or special profile photo.

Slurp is a new CLI tool for GoToSocial that is making post migration possible from Mastodon and Pixelfed archive formats.

Learn about the complexities of previous import solutions and how I slurped up my Pixelfed archive into a new GoToSocial account.

https://box464.com/posts/gotosocial-slurp/

pl-fe now lets #gotosocial v0.18.0 users post from the past

https://pl.mkljczk.pl/
https://codeberg.org/mkljczk/pl-fe

Good morning Fedi friends!

It seems like on the 22nd day of the month I manage to achieve #selfhosting feats

Dec 22nd: I installed #GoToSocial on my Debian VPS thanks to the magic of #YunoHost: @elena

Feb 22nd: after many attempts and 3 wipes of my Ubuntu VPS (following botched installations) I finally managed to install #Ghost https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JMPN122E41Q1G9280WZMD1RF

I think I can sit back and relax now for the rest of the weekend. LEGOs here I come

New on #TheFutureIsFederated

#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls

https://blog.elenarossini.com/gotosocial-empowers-you-to-have-your-own-home-on-the-fediverse-with-unique-controls/

mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk

and my GtS instance @elena

So am I not seeing any #GoToSocial accounts at the moment?

Seems a bit quiet on the Fediverse at the moment.

Looks like my #Mastodon instance connection was severed with many other servers from the #fediverse, especially #GoToSocial.

Could you please give this post a boost, so I can see where it reaches and where it cannot be seen?

Thanks in advance.

Good morning Fedi friends!

Today marks the 2-month anniversary of my #selfhosting journey: on Dec 17 I signed up for a VPS and installed #YunoHost https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113667636910565210

I have never felt more empowered, tech-wise, than in the past two months. I set up my own #GoToSocial, #Pixelfed and #Friendica instances. Seeing the label "admin" next to my name always makes me smile.

Today I will sign up for a 2nd VPS (that runs on Ubuntu) and manually install #Ghost. Wish me luck!