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In this post I share some my personal journey with some selfhostesd open source apps and how they helped me. Maybey you will find some stuff in there that helps you as well.

Ah. I tried /feed.xml and /feed.rss, but didn’t think to check just /feed/

Great post. Just a heads up, I feel like the “loading” screen with it’s fade in and out animations and all actually make your website feel slower than it needs to.

Basically looking for an all in one program similar to the Arr stack that’s easy to use. If it needs to / can be set up with an NBZ or Debrid service beforehand it’s fine, it’s mostly on the daily usage part that it should have a somewhat friendly GUI. Also helps if it has or can be paired with an app for remote streaming what’s on the server.

Ideally works on Cosmos, but if it can’t for any reason, then CasaOS or Yunohost might be fine too.

I’m trying to set up something rather easy to use for my two partners, who are not the most tech savvy, and one of which who really dislikes clunky menus.

Technically, you don’t really need to touch those Arr applications once you set them up. As others have mentioned, Seerr (merged from Jellyseerr and Overseerr) is probably the only thing you use on daily basis.

You mentioned an app for remote streaming, I assume you know about Jellyfin already. If not, it’s like Netflix but you watch your own videos.

HugOP wants remote streaming - that’s a no for jellyfin, especially for people who couldn’t handle the sonarr/radarr UI.

Hi there,

I’m hosting matrix for family use on a server at my place. The issue is my home is affected by internet and electricity outages - which we’re trying to fix. This means that there are frequent downtimes on the chat. I have a UPS but usually is not enough to power everything - router and server - for longer periods of time.

The internet downtime is easy to fix as my router supports fallback connection which I point to a mobile internet solution.

I’ve thought about moving everything to a VPS but then I’m a bit wary of privacy regarding the data there. There’s also the option of moving the server to a family member’s house but I want this this be last resort because that makes maintenance harder.

Anyone dealt with this issues and found a solution? Perhaps a callback mechanism that temporarily hosts the sever on a VPS? :D

Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. - https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries/

Your chance of being struck by lightning in the course of a lifetime is about 1 in 13,000. Lithium-ion batteries have a failure rate that is less than one in a million. The failure rate of a quality Li-ion cell is better than 1 in 10 million. https://www.batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-304a-safety-concerns-with-li-ion/

Battery swelling (not caused by manufacturing defects) is primarily caused by overcharging, deep-discharge, physical damage, and heat, none of which are problems for my server installation.

Ok, i stand corrected

Anyone here have experience self-hosting Stoat?

After a few evenings banging my head against the keyboard I finally have Revolt and Livekit self-hosted!

It’s largely all working through the official stoat-for-web that I’m hosting, but something really simple is preventing me inviting my friends along to try it…

I’ve set the backend to invite-only and added an invite code to the database… But I can’t for the life of me figure out how the devs intend for invites to actually work beyond the backend?

• It doesn’t seem to be a feature of stoat-for-web at all.
• The app doesn’t support any alternative servers as far as I can tell

Any good workarounds, besides opening up the floodgates…?

Only the webUI works out of the box, if you want the phone app you need to compile it yourself.

Damn, that’s a nonstarter for anyone non-technical

It’s non-starter for technical, too.

You have to ship client updates to all your users.

I know this isn’t “selfhosting” as most people imagine it, but it is about hosting services on own hardware, hence why I’m posting in this community.

I’m supposed to help a teacher set up a networking exercise where pairs of computers are connected directly on a crossover cable and can access services (echo, HTTP, SSH, FTP) on each other. Every computer is identical: Windows 10 host, one VirtualBox VM running Linux Mint with a bridged adapter in promiscuous mode. Each host and VM has its own static link-local IP address.

The problem is, the VMs can’t talk to each other, and I don’t know why.

From one VM, I can ping itself, its host, and the remote host, but not the remote VM. Each host can ping itself, the local VM, the remote host, but not the remote VM. I’ve tried connecting both hosts to a layer-2 switch, with the same result.

Can someone point me at the one thing that I’m obviously doing wrong?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/29119389-18af-4b95-9019-6b44902c0460.png

Running Linux on metal isn’t an option. In the past, the classroom computers used to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, but the Windows install got so bloated (the software too, not just Windows) that it needs the full SSD.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

[Thread #104 for this comm, first seen 19th Feb 2026, 11:31] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

Thanks for the follow-up. Of course you would have some kind of mass-deployment, it didn’t think of that. I thought you’d maybe copy the Windows MAC to Linux, but… then you’d remember doing that.

Next up, they will also all have the same ssh host key ;-) (Which may be an advantage actually, but still confusing.) Those are the kind of problems cloud-init is solving, I guess.

This is not directly selfhosting but related. I have 2 Proxmox hosts which both support Intel AMT which is a remote control tool similar to supermicro IPMI, supporting KVM, power cycles and more. I wanted it to be able to repair stuff in case I can’t reach the servers via ui/ssh.

I set it up and it worked fine for months. I could access both on ip.address:16992.

Lately, one of them started disappearing after days or weeks. Rebooting brings it back, but it’s a running server and I don’t want to reboot it so often. The server is working fine otherwise.

Does anyone know that problem? It’s hard to pin down since it can’t be seen on the host linux (port not shown in netstat for example).

Apologies. I misread apparently. I thought your Proxmox boxes were disappearing.

They’re right here in the shelf :-)

Hello all,

I figured that a chunk of the selfhost community is using Caddy, so decided to post my query here. I am a novice in Caddy, so I might be saying some incorrect terms.

Some information - The router and the host running Caddy, are different machines - The router page is running HTTP, but I am accessing it via HTTPS through Caddy - Caddy is running via Docker.

I have a couple of services running on a host, so I access them via Caddy’s reverse proxy. Now I am also trying to access my router login via the same reverse proxy. This is what the router entry in the caddyfile looks like

.
.
{
    local_certs
}
login.router.lan {
	reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:80
}
.
.

With this entry, I can access the login page. However, when I enter the password, I feel like it’s attempting to login but then it just comes back to the original login page. When I access it directly, the login is successful. I also have Pihole running and the Pihole login process works fine. So I suspect that the router login page is expecting some extra information from Caddy to forward it to the login page.

After some searching online and some LLM wrangling, I figured it’s some cookie issue or my login page is expecting a certain host.

What should I add to my Caddyfile so that the login redirect works?

Semi related, you can check the validity of Caddy entries into the caddyfile:

• sudo caddy fmt --overwrite /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
• caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

Where /etc/caddy/Caddyfile points to your caddyfile.

I have tried this, but unfortunately, it did not work. I have tried this suite of commands

login.router.lan {
    reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:80 {
        # Preserve original host and scheme
        header_up Host {upstream_hostport}
        header_up X-Forwarded-Proto {http.request.scheme}
        header_up X-Forwarded-Host {http.request.host}
        header_up X-Forwarded-For {http.request.remote.host}

        # Keep cookies intact
        header_up Cookie {http.request.header.Cookie}
        header_down Set-Cookie {http.response.header.Set-Cookie}

        # Preserve Origin/Referer for CSRF tokens
        header_up Origin https://{http.request.host}
        header_up Referer https://{http.request.host}{http.request.uri.path}
    }
}

Info: My caddy uses HTTPS but the router login page is HTTP. Not sure if this is relevant.

Hi selfhosters 👋

After the feedback I received from self-hosters here and elsewhere, I focused this update on things that matter specifically when you run everything on your own infrastructure.

This update adds:

• 🔗 Generate public shareable links for your projects
• 🗂 Organize everything using folders
• 🖼 Export a full project as a single image

But more importantly for this community:

• 🔌 Connect to GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and Forgejo
• 🏠 Use it with self-hosted Git servers
• 🔐 Provide a personal access token to work with private repositories

Several people mentioned the need to work with private repos and internal Git instances without relying on external services. You can now point Ideon to your own server and use your own token. No third-party dependency required.

Installation is still designed to stay simple. One curl command:

• Downloads the docker-compose.yml
• Downloads the env.example
• Generates all required secrets securely
• Prompts you for SMTP, app URL, port, etc.
• Starts the containers

No repo cloning. No manual secret generation. No external SaaS. Everything runs in two containers: app and database.

GitHub: https://github.com/3xpyth0n/ideon

Docs: https://www.theideon.com/docs

As always, I’m open to feedback. If you self-host it and hit friction anywhere, I want to know.

EDIT 5: Well damn, I forgot to update this with my final choice, and it’s been suiting me well so far. I ended up dropping a little bit more and picked up the Bosgame P4 for roughly $285. It’s been amazing so far. Running Proxmox on it with 3 VMs: HA, Jellyfin, and Pihole. All of them work great and it’s been nothing but stable since I got everything running. I never knew how much a leap it was for my Pihole, it used to take 5-10 minutes to update gravity on the Pi Zero W, now it’s less than 10 seconds! Jellyfin is rock solid, and I have my existing NAS SMBed to Proxmox so it can be accessed from any VM. HA is a joy as well, and I was able to restore my settings from the previous install on the Pi4. All around great choice, ad I still have headoom for a number of other VMs if needed. I’ve been dabbling into the *arr Suite on the Proxmox VE Helper Scripts and whileI’m not in high need of sailing too much, it’s neat to have so many options at my disposal.

Thanks to all who assisted me in this setup!

EDIT 4: I almost gave up on finding the “holy grail” for my use-case. Right price, right specs, etc., and while it’s not perfect, I think I found a solid balance for all. Despite most of the reviews being for a free product, they were well written enough to goad me to purchase. I ended up with the Morefine M9S N305 Mini PC. I grabbed the variant that was still 16GB DDR5, but skimped out of the m.2 size at 256 vs 512. I don’t think I’ll need 512GB for my application. I also went with an older but more powerful Alder Lake i3 n305 vs the flooded market of Twin Lake n150 procs. I would like to think the extra headroom and core count will prove useful with running 3+ VMs. In the meantime, I’ve been slowly tinkering with a VM of Proxmox (VMception?) so see how i performs. I’ve not gotten far with it yet :P

EDIT 3: And Amazon decided to wait until the last minute to cancel my order as it was OOS. Would’ve been nice if they told me sooner. The unit is now also $60 more than before. GREAT.

EDIT 2: I’ve chosen the Beelink EQ14. It had the best “last-gen” specs, lowest price, and better hardware (BT 5.2 vs Pulcro’s 4.2, as well as Wifi6 vs Wifi5). I also ruled out the Morefine because all of its reviews were paid, not very reassuring imho.

EDIT: Holy shit, was not expecting so much support for my inquiry. Thank you all for the bevy of ideas and solutions. I think I’m still gonna go for the Intel 12th Gen+ NUC style, although some of your setups seriously made me quite jelly. Maybe I’ll get there one of these days. I’ll update this when I finally lock down my purchase :)

Hey all, lurker for a bit, but just joined because I’ve started my journey of self hosting the simple stuff (or at least I hope it’s simple). For the past couple years I’ve been using a RPi Zero W for PiHole, and more recently go into Jellyfin and Home Assistant, using an RPi4 and an RPi3+ respectively. I’ve also got a hand-me-down Synology ds214j NAS with 2x8TB in RAID0 RAID1, which is about half full atm. I’m not expecting to expand that storage anytime soon, so I’ve pivoted to an attempt at combining the 3 Pis above into one NUC/SFF/etc device with a roughly similar power draw. Also looking at re-jumping back into 3D printing using OctoPrint.

I’ve looked briefly at jumping to a Pi5, but that led me down the rabbit hole with Jeff Geerling’s article/video on Pi vs. NUC. I’ve continued to putter around looking at NUCs in the ~$200 range. Hoping to stick with MinisForum, GMKTek, or Beelink if possible, but only because… it’s all I know. I’d like to also tinker deeper with Linux flavors, as I’m a noob at best with it but want to at least have some growing knowledge, as I’ve primarily been a Windows gamer and use Apple at the office almost exclusively. I’d like to try staying with AMD as I’ve slowly moved over from the “dark side” (don’t hurt me) that is Intel and Nvidia.

Last nugget is that I’ve never tinkered with Docker, as it seems that may be the best route to host all these apps on one contiguous installation. I’ve new-ish to VMs too, so anything “Baby’s First VM” would be nice.

I know I made a giant pile of wants/needs, so if there’s no magical unicorn, I’m cool with other ideas. Thanks in advance, and I’m really keen on seeing what options I have.

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I ran my own blog for many years but recently I suspect my server got hacked, and after reinstalling I want to do things a little differently.

I’d like to move away from PHP and I don’t really need a dynamic CMS anyhow.

So far I’ve been using PicoCMS which serves content from markdown pages with a little header. I got quite good at it, wrote my own theme and a few plugins. The templating language is Twig so something similar would be a boon for me.

Writing content in markdown is my most important requirement, or rather reusing the existing pages with as little massaging as possible. Here is one example:

---
Title: Create WiFi Hotspot with NetworkManager
date: 24.11.2022
Tags: archlinux,android
template: post
---

# Make sure required depenencies are installed

blablablablablablablabla

I really want a tag cloud, which used to be my only sorting mechanism apart from date. Most generators, at first glance, offer a tags page. Honestly I have no idea if I’d have to template the cloud myself but tag functionality seems to be common, I guess?

What I don’t want is any sort of web UI or even builtin server functionality or other bells and whistles for the user. I prefer to ssh into the server and do things on the CLI.

Now my most important constraint is that I want to use what’s available in (or as a) Debian repositories. After a quick search around it boils down to:

• blag
• Jekyll
• Hugo
• Lektor
• Pelican
• staticsite

Searching for similar topics I found this and this. I read all the comments.

TIA

edit: Lots of people mention Hugo. Why would I choose that over, say, Jekyll or Pelican?
Personally I feel drawn more towards Python than Go or Rust, and a Twig-like (e.g. Jinja) templating language. If that’s idiotic, please let me know why.
Also please remember I’m not running a github (or other similar VCS) page but have a dedicated VPS running Debian Stable. Deployment or containerization are of no interest to me.

edit2: For now I have settled on Pelican - both frontmatter and templating feel very familiar to me. I might even be able to port my PicoCMS theme over. I have not tried to install plugins via pip yet.

Thanks to all!

In the end I chose Pelican soon after this and have been using it happily ever since.