We’re currently doing testing of different self hosting platforms that can be used by community groups to manage their own day for documents and a range of apps.

Specifically we’re looking into platforms that are

1. open source and actively maintained
2. Preferably supports the use of docker
3. Has its own easy-install marketplace (sasy tk upgrade also)
4. Critically includes Single Sogn on suppprt.. so team members can use ONE login across all apps in the platform
5. Nice interface, easy, powerful

Shout out if u have any suggestions.

We’ve tried going full kubernetes but the bar is too high to take our whole team on the journey at this stage.

Also keen not to reinvent the wheel and get behind a good existing project.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Homelab #CommunityLab #DigitalJustice

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

This article by @parisba is why #CommunityHosting and #SelfHosting need to be normalised. They are the only way we can stop scenarios like this happening:

📰 https://hey.paris/posts/appleid

You might think this couldn't happen to you, but it could happen to anyone. It's especially scary as most big tech companies are in repressive countries.

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to make your own online services. I've done a guide for non-technical people at https://growyourown.services

#Activism

RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/109393393007942049

I missed the anniversary of starting https://fantastic.earth this weekend! Three years and going strong.

We started with #Mastodon, and now we are offering multiple hosted services: https://stic.earth. Ask an existing member for an invite.

#communityHosting

One of the problems with the Web 2.0 monolith pattern (server + web client) is that it makes community-hosting of services seem much more resource-intensive than it needs to be.

How much of the server resources used by a standard Matrix homeserver install, for example, is used by the Element web client? How much cheaper would it be to run a headless Matrix server, and use native Matrix apps on whatever devices you use?

EDIT: Or a headless AP server + native apps?

#CommunityHosting #monolith

@xurxia Xusto tiña pendente de leer este artigo que tamén fala un pouco do mesmo: crear servizos comunitarios para non depender das grandes empresas: https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

#CommunityHosting #Ops

A small group of us are working on community level hosting of 'self-hosted' FOSS tools (think #NextCloud and more) setup as a local service offering for local grassroots organisations. We're seeking advice/tips/guidance.

We're keen to do some orchastration but want to avoid the complexity of say Kubernetes.

As a start we were looking at Ansible with Docker Swarm but we're now exploring other alternatives.

Anyone have experience at this sort of hobbist just a bit bigger than #HomeLab Ops scale?

#Pyinfra is being considered as an Ansible, in the projects words "Think ansible but Python instead of YAML, and a lot faster." (https://pyinfra.com)

Anyone have experience at this homelab/small hosting level? Would love any tips/suggestions for tools/approaches.

One source of inspiration is the 12Factor app methodology: https://12factor.net

Personally, as a rubyist I'm always keen to know what the ruby community is doing in this space also.

Haven't seen many others doing work at this scale, lets use the tag #CommunityHosting to keep connected :)

@digital_justice_society

cc: @jadehopepunk @ryan @gilbert @bounding_star @steph @moxvallix @organvoid @teq

#CommunityHosting #Python #DevOps #ruby #RubyOnRails #SelfHosting #Orchastration #FOSS #OpenTofu #SelfHosting #SelfHosted