@juergen @yunohost @nlnet
NLnet funding is a really good sign. That's a credibility stamp.

I've been doing bare Debian + Docker for years so I never reached for something like YunoHost, but honestly the barrier to entry for self-hosting is still way too high for most people. Tools that make it approachable are a net win for the whole ecosystem.

Curious which apps you end up trying first!

@deepjoy
You're right, funding from #NLnet is a very good sign. I've had the real pleasure of working on two NLnet-funded projects in the past.

I agree with you that the barriers to entry for #selfhosting many services are unfortunately very high—far too high for many. But that's precisely where tools like #YunoHost steps in.

I've been playing around with it a bit over the last few days and I have to say it's really easy to use. The fact that devices like #RaspberryPi are explicitly supported makes the barrier to entry much lower in my opinion.

My situation is a bit different. I already self-host a lot of things: #DNS, #webserver, #email, #cloud, #Matrix, #Mastodon, #Pixelfed. And everything runs on Raspberry Pis. Some of it is at my home, much of it in #hosting locations distributed across Europe.
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@juergen @yunohost @nlnet You worked on NLnet projects directly? That's cool, which ones?

I self-hosted email for a while in the 2010s and eventually threw in the towel. Between rDNS, IP reputation, spam filtering, and the constant maintenance it just ate too much time. The fact that you're doing it on a Raspberry Pi distributed across Europe is wild. Has it gotten any easier or is it still a grind?

@deepjoy
Yes, I participated in two projects funded by #NLnet
First, #CAcert (I was on the board from 2012 to 2016, most recently as Vice President). Then, from 2016 until its unfortunate discontinuation in 2022, I worked on the #WPIA project, again as Vice President and also as Managing Director.

I have to say that the email server actually requires the least work of all.
I use the #MailCow Suite @doncow , and a lot of it is already automated, and the individual components work together seamlessly.
My mail server "serves" almost the entire family network, as well as 4 small businesses and a handful of clubs. So, about 10 or 12 "main domains", and around 20 or 25 alias domains.

IP reputation hasn't worried me much either; I've only had one blacklisting issue in the last five years, but the hosting provider resolved it within a few hours. And of course, you have to ensure that #DKIM, #DMARC, #SPF etc. work together correctly. Then it becomes quite easy.
So I'd say things have gotten easier since I started #selfhosting e-Mail years ago. (#mDaemon was my first hosting suite for e-Mail).

Edit: I should also mention that I run an email setup with a primary mail server and a backup mail server.

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@juergen @yunohost @nlnet @doncow CAcert and WPIA, very cool. Right in the trust infrastructure space.

Man, I was stitching together Postfix and Dovecot by hand, even tried Exim. This was before MailCow or Mail-in-a-Box were a thing. One domain and I gave up. You're running 10+ domains with 25 aliases and calling it the least work. That's either a testament to MailCow or an indictment of my patience. Probably both honestly.

Good to know things have genuinely gotten easier though.