Some days the infrastructure just behaves.

Backups run.
The VPN stays up.
Latency stays civilised.
Nothing crashes, stalls, or demands attention.

People mistake that for luck.
It isn’t.

It’s boring choices made early, exits kept open, and systems designed to be forgotten once they’re working.

Boring is beautiful.
Quiet is strong.

#SelfHosting #DigitalIndependence #GoodPlumbing

Every few years I get an email that reminds me why I selfhost.

Polite tone. Friendly branding.
Hidden constraints. Locked exits.

Owning your infrastructure isn’t about saving money.
It’s about not needing permission to leave.

#SelfHosting #IndieWeb #DigitalIndependence

Given the state of the world, every blog, wiki, mastodon, FLOSS repository, etc should have an onion (tor) and i2p alternative just in case your domain name gets erased, seized, stolen because someone with more money and connections didn't like what you wrote/made

#Onion #DotAlt #Tor #I2P #DigitalIndependence

Every time I cancel a bloated SaaS subscription and replace it with a lightweight, open-source tool or a 50-line script I wrote myself, I feel my soul heal a little bit.

We over-complicate our workflows because we've been sold the idea that professional means expensive. Usually, it just means vendor lock-in.

Bonus points to you if this means moving away from Big Tech,

#SelfHosted #opensource #foss #programming #sysadmin #linux #selfhost #cybersecurity #digitalIndependence #bigtech

"Digitalin" could easily be the name of a substance you can get addicted to.

That's why #CamelCase is important.
digitalindependence
DigitalinDependence
#DigitalIndependence
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#accessibility #digitoxin

Gibt es ein europäisches "Let's Encrypt"?

#DigitalIndependence

Do you have experience with the ACME service from Actalis SSL?

I do not like to be dependent on Let's Encrypt for my self hosted services.

#LetsEncrypt #ActalisSSL #ACME #DigitalIndependence

https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/lets-encrypt