🏕️ 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!
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🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 94 ✨
Self-hosted Ghost site unveiling - take 2 🎬
I'm finally ready to show you my self-hosted #Ghost site: installed on my own, with command lines, with a lot of patience and after many attempts (including 4 VPS wipes).
It took me a while to migrate all the posts, media and members, but here we go, finally:
✨ https://news.elenarossini.com ✨
Thanks to your wonderful advice and help (especially by @shollyethan) I got the courage to edit my nginx config and I'm waiting to see if the redirects from the old posts work. It's always DNS... and nginx 😂
And this is take 2 because I swear this self-hosted Ghost site is slightly cursed and the first time around as soon as I edited the URL of an old Mastodon toot, the site went offline. This happened twice today. Won't touch any URLs and will metaphorically sage the VPS to clear its energy 'cause it's a little cursed 🌿
Edited 78d ago
Good morning Fedi friends!
It's been 99 days since I started self-hosting my own Fediverse instances. Crazy how time flies!
I've been a bit absent from here this week because I started exploring the world of #PeerTube from the POV of a creator.
I just set up my own account on #MakerTube - so that I can write a guide that is accessible to many (as opposed to skipping this step and going straight to self-hosting).
Anyway, here is my PeerTube account: https://makertube.net/a/elena/video-channels
I have been able to follow it from #Mastodon and #Friendica without a problem, but I keep getting an error message when I try to subscribe with my #GoToSocial username. The exact message: "Cannot fetch information from this remote account." Does anybody have the same issue? (as in: people on GoToSocial, can you subscribe to PeerTube channels?)
Wishing you all a lovely day 🌞
P.S.: about to go offline for the rest of the day because... there's no pre-school in France on Wednesdays and the garderie keeps my little one up until 12:30. So apologies in advance if I'm slow to reply to messages.
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Hello Fedi friends! This is a routine reminder that I've just migrated my Ghost blog to a self-hosted instance.
If you follow #TheFutureIsFederated via RSS, please update the feed's URL:
https://news.elenarossini.com/rss/
And if you had bookmarked any of my old posts, they'll still work if you refresh the page... or else just swap "blog" with "news" in the address bar.
This is my proudest moment in #MySoCalledSudoLife as I installed everything with commands. I've learned so much these past 4 months!
🏕️ 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!