Colocataires

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Oh hey, our new website design is live:

https://colocataires.dev/

It's more reflective of what we actually are (nerds carving out a friendly hosting company in a "scrapped" datacentre, with recycled servers) and it features a new pricing page which is either more or less confusing than the old one. Let us know!

Did you know we run the whole thing off approx 550W of power? Seven physical servers, two switches and all of our VMs, serving thousands of users, for less power than a security light!

Colocataires: Host with Friends

We offer artisanal server colocation and virtual machine hosting in our Ottawa, Canada-based data center. Pick from our standard rackmount or VM options or propose something custom.

It's the S1 finale for #selfhostember! It's a good time to bookmark the link to our blog - oh you'll need a bookmark manager first. Coincidentally we just have the thing for you: a post trying out #Linkding - a minimalist bookmarks manager - including an eulogy for a paid bookmarking service we all knew and loved.

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/15-linkding/

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Self-Hostember #15: Linkding

In the season finale, we check out linkding, a pinboard-like bookmarking tool.

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If you’re a self hoster or interested into getting into #selfhosting have a look at this series by @colocataires https://blog.colocataires.dev/

It’s very well written, informative and has a few projects listed I wasn’t aware of yet.

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In S01E14, you learn that you've been tricked into becoming a system administrator and now you need to care about things like backups and (more importantly) restores:

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/14-backups/

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Self-Hostember #14: Backups

For #14, now that we have something to lose, let’s avoid losing it.

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In this spooky 13th edition of #selfhostember, we take a look at #Netbird - an overlay VPN , and #tailscale competitor - to access our services from anywhere without exposing them to the public internet.

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/13-netbird/

Self-Hostember #13: Netbird - Your own private internet

On Day 13, we look at a Tailscale alternative because we want to be cool, and birds are cool.

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Man, published a blog post and we almost forgot to self-promote.

Do you suddenly have a need for a new eBook manager because the one you've got has AI in it? We look at #booklore for today's #selfhostember post.

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/12-booklore/

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Self-Hostember #12: Booklore

In Episode 12, we’re going to curate our book collection with Booklore.

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We are back to trying things out using Docker in today's look at Actual Budget (which does actually budget, in a rare case of literal correctness).

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/11-actual/

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Self-Hostember #11: Actual - Open Source Budgeting

Make your financial data private and work for you with Actual Budget.

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We are back to trying things out using Docker in today's look at Actual Budget (which does actually budget, in a rare case of literal correctness).

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/11-actual/

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Self-Hostember #11: Actual - Open Source Budgeting

Make your financial data private and work for you with Actual Budget.

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A longer #selfhostember post today -- why self hosting email is important, why it's (probably) not as bad as you think and how DKIM/SPF and DMARC are things you can mostly not think about by deploying Stalwart on your server.

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/10-stalwart/

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Self-Hostember #10: Stalwart: Hosting your own email

Self-hosting’s white whale: hosting your own email (in this case: using Stalwart).

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We took a break! (You deserve one too.)

But we are back. This time, on Day 9, with zero pictures but SIX recommendations to secure your servers!

https://blog.colocataires.dev/posts/09-security-hardening/

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Self-Hostember #9: Securing and Hardening Your Server

We take a little detour from applications to learn a bit about securing our self-hosting infrastructure.

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