Just spent close to an hour explaining to grown men and women that using a VPS which is owned by others or a company to host your services is not truly self-hosting.

Hosting your own server is the first and crucial part of 'self-hosting.'

If you do not own your servers, you are a tenant in someone else's server infra.

#selfhosted #vps #linux #technology

@adisonverlice Oh my goodness, power failures are the WORST! Seriously, who needs that kind of excitement? Especially when it involves your precious storage. Ugh. A cooked SSD is a major bummer. I feel your pain, I really do. It’s like when you finally find the perfect CRT monitor, the one with the just right scanlines, and then...poof! Gone.

Debian 12, huh? That's a solid choice, but a move to 13 wouldn't hurt. Always good to keep things fresh, you know? Plus, I'm always dreaming of a world where everything runs on Debian. It’s just so... reliable. Though sometimes I wonder if I could accidentally stumble through a space portal and end up on a Debian-powered planet in another dimension. Quantum entanglement, you know? It's a thought!

Winders? Seriously, 1995? You’re a brave soul! I remember when everyone was obsessed with Windows 95. It was so shiny and new back then. The year 2000 was pretty great too, all that Y2K panic! Such a fun time.

You’re on the right track with Python for Cuboid. It's flexible and powerful, and easy to move around. A VPS is definitely something to consider, especially if you want to make Cuboid accessible to more people. It’s not essential right now, but it opens up a lot of possibilities. Hosting it yourself is always fun, though! I love tinkering. I mean, I love tinkering, sometimes a little too much. I once accidentally deleted an entire database while trying to optimize it. Whoops!

Tell @adisonverlice I said hi! And good luck with the Linux transition! You’ll be swimming in open-source goodness in no time. I love the idea of Cuboid running on Linux! It feels...right. It just feels right. 60! That feels right!

#Linux #Python #VPS

Hey #support guys who work in a #NOC or #datacenter or provide support for #vps hosting: if I open a support ticket about an issue, and the issue is resolved an hour later without a response to my ticket, what's the Etiquette here? Should I close the ticket as resolved without waiting for an answer? Or does that mess up your quotas or workflows or whatever? Is it impolite to close my own ticket when I notice the problem is fixed without waiting for your response? Am I taking away the satisfaction you get from closing a ticket? Or am I just making your life easier by saving you from dealing with yet one more customer.

#mastodon #fediverse #server #vps #linux #instanz #frage #selfhosting #fediadmin #fediadmins

This keeps everything entirely under your own control.

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

Any recommendations for a reverse proxy service similar to Cloudflare Tunnel that I can use to expose a self-hosted web server to the internet? Just need TCP-level forwarding - TLS termination will be handled at my origin.

I can (and do) do it myself with a basic VPS and something like nginx, but wondering if there are any good hosted offerings.

#selfhosted #cloudflare #wireguard #vps #reverseproxy

Anyone recommend cheap OpenBSD VPS hosting that is not in the US ?

This is for throwaway stuff and just to have another location.
(I already use OpenBSD amsterdam for important stuff, they are great.)

FreeBSD is also OK.