Stanley Jones

A big week for me and #selfhosting.

On Sunday I migrated my single-user Mastodon instance to a new server running out of my garage.

Then on Wednesday, I finished migrating my long-running (c. 2001) email account to a new machine running Mailcow. A lot of work but none of it was that hard.

Next up is migrating Nextcloud to my garage server. All of this is running on a cheap mini PC that still has more CPUs, RAM, and storage than I was paying for in a hosted solution.

Mar 14 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadStanley JonesMar 14
To be clear, the email server is still in the cloud because my ISP blocks port 25 both in and out. Oh and reverse DNS seemed tricky with a dynamic IP.
Show threadz3r0Mar 14

@stanley Here another guy running his nextcloud, owncast, forgejo and a few more media services from home and my single-user GotoSocial instance and XMPP chat services from a cheap VPC 

How I'm loving to have all of this under my control! 

Show threadDJ MajumdarMar 16
@z3r0 @stanley Same energy here. Forgejo, NextCloud, Home Assistant, a pile of Docker containers on a home server, and a $5 VPS doing reverse tunnel duty. Once you get a taste of running your own stuff, every managed service starts feeling like borrowed time.