So, I decided (via a virtual machine) to download debian. Everything seems to be working fine, except when I open debian, it takes me to "yunohost login". I tried everything I could think of, from "root" to the username it told me to put for the user, even "admin". Nothing worked.

Homebox v0.20.0 released!

Homebox is proud to announce the release of version v0.20.0!

But first, what is Homebox?

Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! With a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Homebox is the perfect solution for your home inventory, organization, and management needs.

About the update

We have officially released v0.20.0 and at the same time are making progress towards v1 (stable). This release covers a range of new features and bug fixes, including:

• Fix untranslated strings
• Printable label improvements
• Move passwords to use Argon2ID
• UI improvements
• Add page title for label and location pages
• Thumbnails
• Fixes for our VS Devcontainer
• ... And much more!

You can see a full list of changes here: Changelog

What about V1..?

Great news! We're making some solid progress towards a v1 release, and have documented our roadmap update here: Homebox v1 Roadmap: Update

Important Note

If you have a custom data path specified for attachments please read the updated documentation to ensure that attachments still work.

Follow the Homebox journey

• On Discord: https://discord.homebox.software/
• On the web: https://homebox.software/
• On Github: https://git.homebox.software/
• Demo: https://demo.homebox.software/

Translate Homebox: https://translate.sysadminsmedia.com/

So, I had to shutdown my mini pc home server (on NIXOS) so that it could be used for something else. Most of my data is in a pair of external hdds in a RAID configuration. However the Postgres database was in the boot drive. I still have it, but it refuses to boot anywhere else (tried some old spare laptops). How can I recover it?

So I'm very new to self hosting. When I set up Ubuntu server and jellyfin it formatted as a logical drive. I can't for the life of me parse how I add the other terabytes worth of disks I have to the machine. Can someone eli5?

I'm looking into to building a small media server. I will be th only user of it. So I don't need the ability to do simultaneous streams. I am planning on running Jellyfin.

Sense I am on a more limited budget I was thinking and older desktop and transcoding my files (on my powerful desktop) to be best supported and play smoothly.

Are there any specific recommendations you guys have for hardware I should keep a look out for that's cheaper or other recommendations for cheap hardware?

A few days ago I noticed a marketing email sent to my Zima alias. Apparently lots of other people also noticed this and were not happy. Attached is the IceWhale response.

Hi all. Hoping someone in the #SelfHosting community can help. I'm trying to set up #Linkwarden in #Docker behind #Caddy. The service is running, but I'm unable to create a user account. This is what I see in my browser console when I try:

register:1 [Intervention] Images loaded lazily and replaced with placeholders. Load events are deferred. See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2048113register%3A1 [DOM] Input elements should have autocomplete attributes (suggested: "new-password"): (More info: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/create-amazing-password-forms) <input data-testid=​"password-input" type=​"password" placeholder=​"••••••••••••••" class=​"w-full rounded-md p-2 border-neutral-content border-solid border outline-none focus:​border-primary duration-100 bg-base-100" value=​"tyq5ghp!QVH-mva1agc">register:1 [DOM] Input elements should have autocomplete attributes (suggested: "new-password"): (More info: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/create-amazing-password-forms) <input data-testid=​"password-confirm-input" type=​"password" placeholder=​"••••••••••••••" class=​"w-full rounded-md p-2 border-neutral-content border-solid border outline-none focus:​border-primary duration-100 bg-base-100" value=​"tyq5ghp!QVH-mva1agc">Errorapi/v1/users:1 Request unavailable in the network panel, try reloading the inspected page Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 () Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 ()

compose file:

services:  postgres:    image: postgres:16-alpine    container_name: linkwarden_postgres    env_file: .env    restart: always    volumes:      - ./pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data    networks:      - linkwarden_net  linkwarden:    env_file: .env    environment:      - DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD}@linkwarden_postgres:5432/postgres    restart: always    # build: . # uncomment this line to build from source    image: ghcr.io/linkwarden/linkwarden:latest # comment this line to build from source    container_name: linkwarden    ports:      - 3009:3000    volumes:      - ./data:/data/data    networks:      - linkwarden_net    depends_on:      - postgresnetworks:  linkwarden_net:    driver: bridge

Relevant part of .env file:

NEXTAUTH_URL=https://bookmarks.laniecarmelo.tech/api/v1/authNEXTAUTH_SECRET=x8az9q9w8ofAxnrVcer2vsPHeMmKSPbf Manual installation database settings# Example: DATABASE_URL=postgresql://user:password@localhost:5432/linkwardenDATABASE_URL= Docker installation database settingsPOSTGRES_PASSWORD=redacted# Additional Optional SettingsPAGINATION_TAKE_COUNT=STORAGE_FOLDER=AUTOSCROLL_TIMEOUT=NEXT_PUBLIC_DISABLE_REGISTRATION=falseNEXT_PUBLIC_CREDENTIALS_ENABLED=true

Caddyfile snippet

*.laniecarmelo.tech {    tls redacted {        dns cloudflare redacted    }    header {        Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval';             img-src https: data:;             font-src 'self' https: data:;             frame-src 'self' https:;             object-src 'none'"        Referrer-Policy "strict-origin-when-cross-origin"        Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload"        X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff"        X-Xss-Protection "1; mode=block"    }    encode br gzip    # Bookmarks    @bookmarks host bookmarks.laniecarmelo.tech    handle @bookmarks {        reverse_proxy 127.0.0.1:3009    }}

Can anyone help? I have no idea how to fix this.
#SelfHosted #CaddyServer #Linux #Tech #Technology
@selfhost @selfhosted @[email protected]

Hi, I offer a year subscription based service. I would like to quit from PayPal and Stripe as they charge you for refunds.

Do you have any recommendations for this services that doesn't charge for refunds?

Thanks in advance :)

I've been using Portainer to manage my homelab stacks from a single dashboard, which is more convenient than the CLI, but I'm not very satisfied with it so I've been looking for alternatives.

Portainer often fails to deploy them and is either silent about it, or doesn't give me much information to work with. The main convenience is that (when it works) it automatically pulls the updated docker compose files from my repo and deploys it without any action on my part.

Docker Swarm and Kubernetes seem to be the next ones in line. I have some experience with K8s so I know it can be complex, but I hope it's a complexity most paid upfront when setting everything up rather than being complicated to maintain.

Do you have any experience with either one of these, or perhaps another way to orchestrate these services?

So I'm on the lookout for something, but I don't know how to briefly describe it. I want something to help me document various projects at work. It's not uncommon for me to spend a week setting something up, and it works for 2 years and then has a problem -- and I have to re-learn everything about it from the ground up before I can start solving it. For example, I'm setting up a new VMWare server today, and I just know I'm going to forget some of the details on it -- so I want to be able to type out some of the specs and processes, maybe use some tags, a coupel hyperlinks to more info, and be able to search for it a year from now. Does that make sense? Anybody have any suggestions?

Just thought I'd share this since it's working for me at my home instance of federate.cc, even though it's not documented in the Lemmy hosting guide.

The image server used by Lemmy, pict-rs, recently added support for object storage like Amazon S3, instead of serving images directly off the disk. This is potentially interesting to you because object storage is orders of magnitude cheaper than disk storage with a VM.

By way of example, I'm hosting my setup on Vultr, but this applies to say Digital Ocean or AWS as well. Going from a 50GB to a 100GB VM instance on Vultr will take you from $12 to $24/month. Up to 180GB, $48/month. Of course these include CPU and RAM step-ups too, but I'm focusing only on disk space for now.

Vultr's object storage by comparison is $5/month for 1TB of storage and includes a separate 1TB of bandwidth that doesn't count against your main VM, plus this content is served off of Vultr's CDN instead of your instance, meaning even less CPU load for you.

This is pretty easy to do. What we'll be doing is diverging slightly from the official Lemmy ansible setup to add some different environment variables to pict-rs.

After step 5, before running the ansible playbook, we're going to modify the ansible template slightly:

cd templates/

cp docker-compose.yml docker-compose.yml.original

Now we're going to edit the docker-compose.yml with your favourite text editor, personally I like micro but vim, emacs, nano or whatever will do..

favourite-editor docker-compose.yml

Down around line 67 begins the section for pictrs, you'll notice under the environment section there are a bunch of things that the Lemmy guys predefined. We're going to add some here to take advantage of the new support for object storage in pict-rs 0.4+:

At the bottom of the environment section we'll add these new vars:

  - PICTRS__STORE__TYPE=object_storage
  - PICTRS__STORE__ENDPOINT=Your Object Store Endpoint
  - PICTRS__STORE__BUCKET_NAME=Your Bucket Name
  - PICTRS__STORE__REGION=Your Bucket Region
  - PICTRS__STORE__USE_PATH_STYLE=false
  - PICTRS__STORE__ACCESS_KEY=Your Access Key
  - PICTRS__STORE__SECRET_KEY=Your Secret Key

So your whole pictrs section looks something like this: https://pastebin.com/X1dP1jew

The actual bucket name, region, access key and secret key will come from your provider. If you're using Vultr like me then they are under the details after you've created your object store, under Overview -> S3 Credentials. On Vultr your endpoint will be something like sjc1.vultrobjects.com, and your region is the domain prefix, so in this case sjc1.

Now you can install as usual. If you have an existing instance already deployed, there is an additional migration command you have to run to move your on-disk images into the object storage.

You're now good to go and things should pretty much behave like before, except pict-rs will be saving images to your designated cloud/object store, and when serving images it will instead redirect clients to pull directly from the object store, saving you a lot of storage, cpu use and bandwidth, and therefore money.

Hope this helps someone, I am not an expert in either Lemmy administration nor Linux sysadmin stuff, but I can say I've done this on my own instance at federate.cc and so far I can't see any ill effects.

Happy Lemmy-ing!

I'm particularly interested in low bandwidth solutions. My connection to the internet is pretty rough 20mbps down and 1mbps up with no option to upgrade.

That said, this isn't limited to low bandwidth solutions.

I'm planning on redoing my entire setup soon to run on Kubernetes followed by expanding the scope of what my server does (Currently plex, a sftp server and local client backups). Before i do that i need a proper offsite backup solution.

My use case is I’m transferring large already encrypted files between two servers connected via wireguard.

Is there any benefit to SFTP over FTP in this case?

I have a self hosted server running yunohost that I use for a few services for my own use all of which require login to use so they're safe enough.

However I'm increasingly uncomfortable with the fact that anyone can discover my home IP via my domain name. Especially if I decided to install something like Lemmy or Mastodon.

Yunohost installs dyndns as part of it's setup but, aside from buying a fixed IP from a VPN provider that allows incoming connections I'm not sure what other options I have

I can't change very much on the modem router either. I can forward ports but that's about it.

I can add and manage new domains if necessary.

Any and all ideas welcome but, as you can guess from the fact I'm using yunohost, my networking knowledge is limited so please eli5 :)

I plan to have the following services running concurrently on it:

• A VPN (OpenVPN or Wireguard)
• A very lightweight personal website
• A Nextcloud instance (25GB storage max)
• A Vaultwarden instance
• An Invidious instance
• A Matrix server
• A Lemmy instance

I'm unsure if these would be private or public instances. But I'd be curious to hear any thoughts on how much more space I'd need for public instances too, if you'd have a sense of that.

I currently have a VPS with 2GB RAM + 50GB storage. Would that be enough? Thanks in advance!