There was one question where it wouldn’t let me do this. I think the media streaming question I had to click “Other”.

Never used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.

Watchtower for automated updates. For containers that don’t have a latest tag to track, editing the version number manually and then docker compose pull && docker compose up -d is simple enough.

Yes, if you use the “task list” block. You can also have checkbox bullet points but I don’t use them, not really sure what the use-case for those are when you can just use the task list.

I self-host Notesnook and found it easy to set up. Been using it as my main note-taking app for years now and I’m really happy with it.

Someone who’s in the business of stealing computers would just stick it in a faraday bag. I guess for an entire server you’d need a sizeable cage though.

Idk about Immich but Vaultwarden is just a Cargo project no? Cargo statically links crates by default but I think can be configured to do dynamic linking too. The Rust ecosystem seems to favour static linking in general just by convention.

Yeah the intro read as weird to me. If you’re writing for a programming crowd there’s no need to explain all that, and anyway the rest of the article wasn’t about the stack/heap distinction.

I don’t think there is really any learning curve to “learning HTML” if you are not trying to do anything funky and you just want a simple static website that functions, like OP said, “like a business card”. You may as well just type it out yourself. If you’ve never written HTML before just look at w3schools.

I think once Forgejo gets ActivityPub integration working it will really help for migration. I know federated platforms like Mastodon struggled with adoption because I think a lot of folks struggled to wrap their heads around the fact that there’s no “default instance” and they have to choose their own instance, but hopefully for a programming crowd that won’t be an issue. It would massively help with the “well I could move to a different website but there’s no obvious second choice I can move to” issue; you can just head to any Forgejo instance and interact with any other federated instance.

You get a domain name, and use an A record to point it towards your server’s public IP address.

You tell nginx to forward requests to a given domain. For instance, you could tell nginx to forward requests to foo.bar.com to 127.0.0.1:1337. To do this:

http {
    server {
        server_name foo.bar.com;
        listen 80;
        
        location / {
            proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1337$request_uri;
        }
    }
}

Note that this is a very basic setup that doesn’t have HTTPS or anything. If you want an SSL certificate, look into Let’s Encrypt and Certbot.

Also, the service you’re hosting (which I’m not familiar with) may have an example reverse proxy config you should use as a starting point if it exists.

Been self hosting email for a good while now and it’s been largely painless. My emails are not getting marked spam either. Although my only outgoing mails are to FOSS mailing lists and occasionally to individuals, not for anything business related.

I would say that if self hosting email sounds like something you’d be interested in, then it probably is worthwhile for you. I like being able to configure my mail server exactly the way I want it, and I have some server side scripts I wrote for server side mail processing, which is useful as I have several different mail clients so it makes sense to do processing on the server rather than trying to configure it on my many clients. It definitely falls into the “poweruser” category of activities but I’ve had fun and I enjoy my digital sovereignty.

Do you have an old laptop somewhere? You shouldn’t need a new machine for a home lab if you’re just hosting services. Most of my self hosted services are on a fairly lightweight VPS.

And yeah, I’d second the commenter suggesting you look for a second hand computer somewhere instead of buying HP.

Simply make everything an array of bytes

Why ZFS?

I think in general people start out in VMs and advance to containers. If you are already using containers stick with it, otherwise you are taking a step back.

Interesting perspective—I had thought that running an entire VM would be more difficult, but I’ve never used virtualisation for server stuff, only ever used VMs with a GUI VM manager on my personal computer. Thanks for the input.

I think you should open a Forgejo issue requesting a cache size limit option. It seems like quite a big problem if bots can fill up your hard drive like this without you setting a limit on all data used by Forgejo (when, for single-user instances, you probably only want to limit archive size or size of any data the public can create, not the size of your own repos)

Codeberg Pages. Neocities.

Do you live with other people? It sounds like someone who lives with you (or otherwise has physical access to the device) is playing a prank on you, given the fact that the issue returned a day after a reinstall. Maybe they are booting into a live USB and installing the prank software that way.

Try reinstalling with full disk encryption maybe, so that they can’t just modify your files like that.

I do this (self host mail, have a script to encrypt incoming unencrypted mail) and have not had problems. There are lots of guides online; here’s a good one: https://www.linuxbabe.com/mail-server/setup-basic-postfix-mail-sever-ubuntu