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It's been a while! Hope that you had an awesome holiday period and new year 🎉 Apologies for our lack of newsletters! I'm afraid that we've been quite busy with other commitments. 📚 Some light readingWe've been keeping an eye on a few blogs that we like and we think you should check them out! Take a look: https://kevq.uk/comparing-static-site-hosts-best-host-for-a-static-site/https://github.blog/2022-02-02-build-ci-cd-pipeline-github-actions-four-steps/https://blog.alexellis.io/primer-accessing-kubernetes-services/https://netflixtechblog.com/demystifying-interviewing-for-backend-engineers-netflix-aceb26a83495https://thecrow.uk/Delta-Chat-and-the-future-of-messaging-apps/https://medium.com/geekculture/streaming-docker-containers-to-your-browser-75ae9d6e27f8💰 Want to support The Self-Hosting Blog?You may have noticed that we do not run ads on The Self-Hosting Blog, this is because we want to protect your privacy. If you're feeling super generous and you love what we do, why not support us by buying us a coffee? ...

Happy Friday! What a crazy month it's been as well, we've been looking into a lot of ansible stuff these past few weeks in preparation for some new features coming to the blog, so watch this space!! We're also preparing some tutorials for getting started with Ansible and some nice tips and tricks we've found along the way. 🎉Competition time!As we head into Spooptober things are starting to get cold here in the UK, which means it's a perfect opportunity to buy that new home lab and start warming up the place! ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #19What's new? Been fighting with Wordpress recently, I've had to migrate 5-6 production sites over to a new VPS. Previously running in dedicated Wordpress hosting, now running inside Docker containers. I'll probably do a write-up just to share my experience of fighting with DNS, Certificates, Duplication Tools, Self hosted email servers and container management. You can stay up to date and interact with us in our Matrix and Discord channel, feel free to join us in the conversation! ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #18What's new? We've been playing around with Forem the backend that powers dev.to. We've been thinking about bringing the community into The Self-Hosting Blog more and allowing you to create community tutorials all under one roof. It's early days at the moment, but we'll let you know more about it as we go along! You can stay up to date and interact with us in our Matrix and Discord channel, feel free to join us in the conversation! ...

What is Stringer?If you're like me, I just want to consume my RSS. I don't want to see any adverts, any fancy recommendations or have a subscription fee. I also want an RSS reader that is pleasant to use. I have dabbled with TinyTinyRSS and FreshRSS. But for me, the UI isn't that great. I keep coming back to Stringer, and I think it deserves some more love. Setting up StringerI'm going to talk through how to set up Stringer on either bare metal or Docker. You can choose your own adventure by selecting one of the links below! ...

What is Matrix?"Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations. Maintained by the non-profit Matrix.org Foundation, we aim to create an open platform which is as independent, vibrant and evolving as the Web itself... but for communication. As of June 2019, Matrix is out of beta, and the protocol is fully suitable for production usage." ~ matrix.org Disclaimer: Although it is entirely possible to host a Synapse server on a Raspberry Pi, Synapse is a huge resource hog and will struggle with connecting to multiple federated servers. If however, you are looking to use Matrix bridging, or running your own self-hosted chat between friends and family, the Raspberry Pi will do just fine! ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #17Things have been quiet here, both of us have had far too many distractions this past month! Having said that, here is our first monthly dose of all things self hosting! Because of how busy we've been we haven't been able to publish any new articles, but we do have some things in the works so watch this space! we're doing a write up on how to set up a Matrix server on a Raspberry Pi and we're also hoping to do some weird things with Docker... ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #16Happy Monday! I have some news, I don't feel like I am producing quality when I write-up the Weekly Newsletter. Therefore, James and I have decided to run the Newsletter on a Monthly basis. Hopefully you don't mind. Anyway, this'll be the last weekly newsletter. There should also be some main posts coming up in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for understanding Ed ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #15Happy Monday! Here's your weekly dose of self-hosting goodies! Thanks! Ed 🎯 Top posts from our favourite blogsConflating Privacy & Anonymity: A Layperson’s Perspective | Nicholas DanesNicholas DanesTell me when I suck, you don’t have to choose your words carefully | Marko ZivanovicI wrote this so I can share it with all the people I’ll be working with in the future.Marko ZivanovicMarko SaricPrevent Windows from SleepingI have a few processes on my Windows gaming PC that are critical but sometimes get impacted over night as Windows tells my beloved machine to tone it down. My machine has the necessary cooling so I’m happy to let the processes do their work. There is a setting in the UI which allows you …David Walsh BlogDavid WalshIs Windows Unstable? Here Are My Thoughts - Kev QuirkI hear lots of people in the Linux community say that Windows is really unstable, but how unstable is Windows really? I share my thoughts.Kev Quirk📈 Our popular posts last week!Completely Self-Hosting Bitwarden Password Manager (Updated 2021)This article will cover setting up your own self-hosted Bitwarden instance with Docker and configuring ngnix to allow for public exposure for cross device access to your vault.The Self-Hosting BlogEd LeemanSetting up a Valheim server using DockerI’m going to talk through how to host a Valheim server on a docker image. This will enable you to set up a permanent server for all your friends to enjoy, 24/7.The Self-Hosting BlogEd LeemanSetting up Focalboard - A self-hosted alternative to Trello and NotionFocalboard is a self-hosted alternative to tools such as Notion or Trello which you can run on your own instance. Focalboard helps with tracking and organising your own work, as well as across a team.The Self-Hosting BlogEd LeemanHow to completely self-host Standard Notes (Updated 2021)This is a tutorial on how to self-host Standard Notes, for security, privacy and control of dataThe Self-Hosting BlogEd Leeman💰 Want to support The Self-Hosting Blog?You may have noticed that we do not run ads on The Self-Hosting Blog, this is because we want to protect your privacy. If you're feeling super generous and you love what we do, why not support us by buying us a coffee? ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #14Happy Monday! Here's your weekly dose of self-hosting goodies! Have you ever thought about being notified when or if your services go down? Shukuri Adams has... They have developed a low resource app which allows you to be notified via Email or Slack (more coming soon) when any of your services are having some trouble. arewedown is a simple up-time monitoring system and dashboard. It is intended for the self-hosting user (who runs multiple services/networked devices internally) who doesn't want the hassle of setting up a complex enterprise-level monitoring system. Written in NodeJS. ...