Attached is my Hetzner bill.

It has grown noticeably even though I deleted an extra VPS during this period.

The amount rose from a steady 28.23 euros to 37.15 euros in June.
That works out to roughly a 31 percent increase.

This does not yet include the latest price adjustment they announced for mid June! It only applies to new orders and rescales of existing cloud instances.

Existing contracts keep the old rates.

It already looks worrying.

The end of a cheap-VPS-era is here!

#Hetzner #SelfHosting #CloudCosts #PriceIncrease #Inflation #Crysis #Cloud #VPS #Fediverse

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Screenshot of a Hetzner invoices table from January 22 to June 22 2026. Columns show Date, Inv-No, PDF button, Amount in euros and Status. First four months list 28.23 euros. May shows 36.92 euros and June shows 37.15 euros. All six rows have green settled badges.

Building a immich only box thinking of going debian and btrfs any other ideas or tips?

It's a 8th gen nuc

Tia

#selfhosting #immich #server #debian

I haven't turned on this raspberry pi 4 8gb of ram in like 3 years. I've been feeling like resurrecting it and setting it up again.

What services should I install on it?
What casing or peripherals should I use?

#Hardware #RaspberryPi #PCB #Computing #SelfHosting

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A dusty raspberry pi

What many people misunderstand about hosting your own content (like this social media instance) is thinking we somehow NEED a big audience or Big Tech involvement.

I'm perfectly fine if the world faded away and it was just the thousand of us here. It's like the early days of the web when we had small forums, nobody missed Reddit back then. Federation is a big plus, not a requirement.

It's the same with websites or IRC for me. I know people use Discord, but I still stick to IRC even if there are only about a hundred of us left. I know people use AI now and website visitors are dropping, but who cares? I still keep doing it for those who like to read.

I don't need the whole world involved for this to feel worthwhile. It's mine, I own it, and I host it for as long as I breathe. After that, it won't matter to me anymore, but I hope other admins keep things running the way I did.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #OpenSource #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenWeb #SocialWeb

3/3 Teach Your Kids To Pirate. Now.

Presented by Reptarus On Ice

#piracy #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #archive #library #selfhosting #retrocomputing #activism #eff #cypherpunk #cyberpunk #antifa #fyp

2/3 Teach Your Kids To Pirate. Now.

Presented by Reptarus On Ice

#piracy #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #archive #library #selfhosting #retrocomputing #activism #eff #cypherpunk #cyberpunk #antifa #fyp

1/3 Teach Your Kids To Pirate. Now.

Presented by Reptarus On Ice

#piracy #dataprivacy #cybersecurity #archive #library #selfhosting #retrocomputing #activism #eff #cypherpunk #cyberpunk #antifa #fyp

How to Install #Jitsi Meet on #Ubuntu #VPS

This article provides a guide for how to install Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu VPS servers.
✅ What is Jitsi Meet?
Jitsi Meet is a free, open-source video conferencing platform that you can use without needing an account or installing any software. It runs entirely in the browser and offers ...
Continued 👉 https://blog.radwebhosting.com/install-jitsi-meet-on-ubuntu-vps/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon.raddemo.host #vpsservers #unifiedcommunications #communication #videoconferencing #selfhosted #kvmvps #installguide #opensource #selfhosting

Hetzner is doing another price increase.

this time it seems to only affect new orders, not existing ones .. but the price increase is pretty steep, like 2-3x or more

https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/

#Hetzner #cloud #hosting #selfhosting

The fact that #Anthropic had to take down #Fable5 for users outside of the US by order of the US government shows how critical it is today to rely on US services

Imagine they'd do the same with #WhatsApp, you will not be able to talk to your #family and friends anymore

This should be a wake-up call for everyone to rely on your own server infrastructure, running with #OpenSource #software

#autonomy #digitalindependence #europe #european #decentralization #selfhosting #ArcaneChat #android #ai

so i'm running nextcloud server using a docker container using windows. now i got this #docker #container running last night, the contaainer is running fine. i am using #tailscale serve in order to get it to my #tailnet . now here's the problem.
the problem is i have to run this via a reverse proxy, hence tailscale serve. this in itself isn't a problem. the problem is trying to get it running on this machine. the path of which it is located is /nc. so it's my-machine.tailnetname.ts.net/nc. but nextcloud won't accept it for some reason. how do i fix this? thanks in advance.

https://lukasiewicz.tech/blog/6

#selfhosting #Debian #Docker #Dockge

Built something I’ve wanted for a while...
An open-source Docker container that makes running a Tor relay actually simple and reliable.

One command. Self-healing. Multi-arch. Runs everywhere from Raspberry Pi to VPS

🔗 https://github.com/r3bo0tbx1/tor-guard-relay

If you care about privacy infrastructure:
🧱 Try it out
🐛 Report bugs
💡 Suggest features
⭐ Star it to help others discover it

Maintaining this in my free time, donation info’s in the README (and please support @torproject, @eff and @privacyguides too).

Protecting privacy, one relay at a time ✨

#Tor #Privacy #OpenSource #Docker #FOSS #SelfHosting #Infosec

onion-relay v2.0.0 is out, and it's been a long road from v0.0.1 ⬇️

ℹ️ What started as "one command to run a relay" is now a hardened, production-tested AIO stack: guard, exit, and bridge (obfs4) in a 16.8 MB image.

What's new in v2.0.0:
🩺 health + status tools now expose build_version & config_source
⚡ healthcheck.sh fails fast on missing/empty torrc
🔒 DirPort now defaults to 0 (disabled) in ENV-generated configs

What the project has grown into since launch:
🔑 Happy Family support (Tor 0.4.9+ FamilyId, 🪦 RIP MyFamily lists)
🧰 6 busybox only diagnostic tools
🌍 Battle-tested across 10+ countries: https://relays.brokenbotnet.com
🔐 35+ security fixes, CVE coverage, weekly automated rebuilds
🐋 Works with Docker CLI, Compose, Cosmos Cloud & Portainer

https://github.com/r3bo0tbx1/tor-guard-relay

If you care about privacy infrastructure:
🥢 Try it out
🐛 Report bugs
💡 Suggest features
⭐ Star it to help others find it

Still maintaining this in my free time, donation info
in the README. And please support @torproject

@eff and @privacyguides too.

Protecting privacy, one relay at a time ✨

#Tor #Privacy #OpenSource #Docker #FOSS #SelfHosting #Infosec

Proton launched Proton Drive CLI for Windows, macOS, and Linux, bringing encrypted file management, sharing, and automation to the terminal. 💻
Built on the new Drive SDK, the tool supports scripting and backups while using the same end-to-end encryption as Proton Drive apps. 🔐

@protonprivacy

🔗 https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-cli

#TechNews #Proton #ProtonDrive #CLI #Linux #OpenSource #Privacy #Encryption #CloudStorage #Security #Terminal #DevOps #SelfHosting #Technology #FOSS #Windows #MacOS #SDK

hat.sh lets you encrypt files locally in your browser using modern cryptography — nothing is uploaded or stored.

Perfect for securing files before sharing or using cloud storage. Open-source and self-hostable.

👉 https://github.com/sh-dv/hat.sh

👉 More tools like this : https://digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app/

#Privacy #Encryption #OpenSource #SelfHosting #DigitalSecurity

No Cloudflare. No 2FA nonsense. No cloud surveillance. Your box. Your rules.

https://hestiacp.com/

#HestiaCP #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Webmasters #Weblords

This keeps everything entirely under your own control.

#SelfHosting #WebMasters #WebLords #HestiaCP #VPS #Domains

I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

(DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

#DarkMX #P2P #FileSharing #Anonymous #SelfHosting #TOR #OnionNetwork #Censorship

@selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe infosec@a.gup.pe