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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! ...

📰 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. ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #13Happy Monday! Here's your weekly dose of self-hosting goodies! It's been quite a slow week in the self-hosting world, so I don't have that much for you. However, have you checked out our previous posts? They're all available here. There's a post down in our 'top posts' section which talks about the pro's and con's of switching to iPhone from Android. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago which I wrote about here. ...

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #12Happy Monday! Here's your weekly dose of self-hosting goodies! First up, let me tell you about a huge time saver that I have recently found out about. We all know and love the Raspberry Pi Imager. We can quickly download a multitude of images direct from the application, without having to dig through the internet for the latest version of Ubuntu Server. It's pretty awesome. Now, what's this time saver? ...