gibdos

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[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Wen intressiert es denn, wenn ich mein Haus abfackel oder mein Kind vergiftet, wenn ich 5€ spare \s

Ich werde nie Menschen verstehen, die sinnlosen Müll bei solchen Shops bestellen.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Thanks! I am happy, if people find it helpful.

 

I was quite busy the past couple of days, but I finally managed to finish my mail-server migration.

And since I decided to also upgrade my old backup solution from the ancient times, I also wrote a guide for my new borgmatic based solution, which I now want to share with you guys.

I hope it helps some of you with your server backups.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The amount of baseless Ubuntu Server hate in this sub is pretty sad. I've used Ubuntu Server, without any problems, for more than a decade. And at no point where there any significant changes to the way things are done. So I really think your comment about articles becoming useless has no basis in reality.

As for using your own hardware. Nothing in this guide necessarily requires a VPS. And you seem to completely ignore the upkeep and electricity costs of having your own hardware at home.

Not to mention the convenience of a public IP, which is something not every ISP around the world offers. And yes, you can use a dynamic DNS provider to get around that, but then you publish your private IP onto the entire internet.

The guide was focused on being as simple and convenient as possible, with the target audience being absolute beginners to self-hosting. If it doesn't speak to you, feel free to write your own.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you for your very helpful and friendly criticism. I temporarily used Netlify, because I haven't gotten around to program a proper deploy script for my Forgejo git repo.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You mean from one LTS to the next? It's been a while, but as far as I remember, it worked fine on my last server (22.04 to 24.04).

And even if something doesn't work, I can have all my stuff spun up on a new server in less than an hour. But that, of course, depends on the amount of data you host.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think you are conflating desktop Ubuntu with Ubuntu Server. On a server, you absolutly want a stable, long supported LTS version.

I've been hosting on Ubuntu Server for over 10 years now, and at no point were any packages required to keep it up to date and running outdated.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

I see your point. But to me, self-hosting just means being responsible for the server and services and not necessarily having my own hardware server at home. And just calling it hosting is too broad a definition for me. And at the end of the day, the guide works just as well for your own hardware or a VM, as it does for a VPS.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize my mistake. I forgot to actually use the npx @11ty/eleventy build command instead of always relying on npx @11ty/eleventy --serve. Now the images are properly linked and transformed / optimized.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I've personally never found the need to do that. If you follow basic security guidelines and keep your server os and the docker service up-to-date, there really isn't any real threat.

Though I have heard of Authelia before and was interested in reading up on SSO, one of these days.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, took me a while to get the hang with Nunjucks, which I had never heard of or used before. But once I got it all properly set up, it was super simple and easy. I'll definetly write a guide to it too, eventually.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't really help you there, since comments were never a consideration for me. They would add an unneeded amount of moderation, and potential threat, to my blog.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks, glad you liked it.

Yeah, I know that the images are borked. But it's pretty late here and I was too lazy to fix it. I'll fix it tomorrow.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by gibdos@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I recently became interessted in learning about static site generators. So I decided to start a little 11ty blog, in which I teach people, who are new to self-hosting, how to securely set up their own server with Ubuntu and Docker.

For now, I've got my Beginners Guide series as well as a more detailed introduction to SSH and its features. I plan to eventually write down all I've learned about self-hosting in the past 20 years.

Hope it ends up being helpful for some of you.

EDIT (2025-10-28): Finally got around to get a proper domain and switched my blog to Hugo. Much easier to deal with and more capable imho than 11ty (and actually useful documentation as well). Oh and got rid of Netlify. Their 300 credit limit for a free deploy project is far too limiting if any deploy costs 15 credits...

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