Newsletter on The Self-Hosting Blog

📰Issue #21 • We're back

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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 reading

We've been keeping an eye on a few blogs that we like and we think you should check them out! Take a look:

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Issue #20 • Competition time & Fun with Ansible!

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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!

Issue #19 • Production Wordpress migrations

Tue, 07 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #19

What'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!

Issue #18 • Blog expansion over to Forem

Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #18

What'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!

Issue #17 • New Horizons

Thu, 01 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #17

Things 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...

Issue #16 • We're moving to monthly

Mon, 31 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #16

Happy 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

Issue #15 • Tell me when I suck

Mon, 24 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #15

Happy Monday! Here's your weekly dose of self-hosting goodies!

Thanks!

🎯 Top posts from our favourite blogs

Conflating Privacy & Anonymity: A Layperson’s Perspective | Nicholas Danes

Nicholas Danes

Tell me when I suck, you don’t have to choose your words carefully | Marko Zivanovic

I wrote this so I can share it with all the people I’ll be working with in the future.

Marko ZivanovicMarko Saric

Prevent Windows from Sleeping

I 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 Walsh

Is Windows Unstable? Here Are My Thoughts - Kev Quirk

I 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

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 Leeman

Setting up a Valheim server using Docker

I’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 Leeman

Setting up Focalboard - A self-hosted alternative to Trello and Notion

Focalboard 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 Leeman

How 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 data

The Self-Hosting BlogEd Leeman

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Issue #14 • Are your services running?

Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #14

Happy 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.

Issue #13 • Switching to iPhone from Android

Mon, 10 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #13

Happy 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.

Issue #12 • Save time by using the Raspberry Pi Imager's hidden feature

Mon, 03 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #12

Happy 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?

Issue #11 • Free tunnels from Cloudflare

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #11

Happy Monday! Here's your weekly dose of self-hosting goodies!

🎯 Top posts from our favourite bloggers

A Boring Announcement: Free Tunnels for Everyone

Argo Tunnel has been priced based on bandwidth consumption as part of Argo Smart Routing, Cloudflare’s traffic acceleration feature. Starting today, we’re excited to announce that any organization can use the secure, outbound-only connection feature of the product at no cost.

The Cloudflare BlogAbe Carryl

gravitl/netmaker

Netmaker makes networks. Netmaker makes networking easy, fast, and secure across all environments. - gravitl/netmaker

GitHubgravitl

Autorestic | autorestic

autorestic

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 Leeman

Setting up a Valheim server using Docker

I’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 Leeman

Setting up Focalboard - A self-hosted alternative to Trello and Notion

The Self-Hosting BlogEd Leeman

How 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 data

The Self-Hosting BlogEd Leeman

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Issue #10 • IP Masquerading and server notifications

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #10

Happy Monday!

There's not a lot to report on this week, make sure to check out the posts from our favourite bloggers though! The top post from Inlets raises an interesting way of having a public static IP address without needing to pay your ISP for the pleasure. This can also be achieved for free using IP Masquerading, which I'm going to have a look into for my personal setup.

Issue #9 • Obfuscate your online identity with an email alias

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #9

Happy Monday!

In this weeks' issue, I'm going to talk a little about setting up SimpleLogin, we'll be doing a full tutorial post in the future but this is more to make you aware of the service and how it can protect you.

SimpleLogin allows you to protect your privacy by acting as an anonymising middleman between a service and your inbox. Using SimpleLogin allows you to defend yourself against spam, phishing and data breaches.

Issue #8 • De-Google! Beat the YouTube algorithm, follow your subscriptions with RSS.

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #8

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend!

I'm going to talk to you about adding your YouTube subscriptions as RSS feeds. You may have noticed while viewing your favourite YouTube content creators, that they ask you to "subscribe and click the bell icon" to be notified when they upload.

This is because YouTube is in control of whether their content gets shown to you. Have you ever missed an upload because you didn't know that it existed?

Issue #7 • Don't underestimate the power of a Raspberry Pi 4

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #7

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend!

This week, we learned that we should never underestimate the power of a Raspberry Pi 4. u/Swamp7hing over at r/selfhosted has shown us their Homer Dashboard displaying all their services running on their Raspberry Pi 4.

Find out more below!

Finally done setting up my RPi4 Homer server dashboard! from selfhosted

Self-hosting Papercups.io - Open-source live customer chat with Slack integration!

Papercups is an opensource self-hosted chat window that you can add to your site to interact with your visitors instantly. Papercups gives you the ability to reply directly from Slack or using their built-in messenger.

Issue #6 • The self-hosted alternative to Trello and Notion

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #6

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend!

Focalboard has taken the internet by storm this week, introducing itself as an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. We have written a post about how you can set up your own instance to have a play around and see what all the fuss is about.

It's very early days for Focalboard, but what they have so far looks really promising.

Issue #5 • Secure, decentralized communication

Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #5

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend!

We've joined Matrix! An open network for secure, decentralized communication.

Join our official Self-Hosting Blog chat room to stay up to date with the latest in Self-Hosting! Find us here

We're also on Discord! Find us here

We're now Portainer community leaders!

Good news! We're now Portainer community leaders, we're super excited to be a part of the community and we can't wait to show you all the latest features from Portainer as well as how to utilise the current toolset to the fullest extent.

Issue #4 • Modern usability of the web

Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #4

Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend. We've had a very busy week so we've got tons of updates to share with you!

We came across https://grumpy.website/ this week, which has some very entertaining posts around the modern usability of the web.

There was one post that stuck out to me.

Many videogames use “click and hold” gesture instead of just “click” for dangerous/destructive operations. I wonder why it never made it to desktop UIs? Would be a great alternative to annoying “Are you sure” dialogs.

https://grumpy.website/post/0V0iwbQ31

Issue #3 • We should be back to normal soon

Mon, 01 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #3

Ed here at The Self-Hosting Blog. Happy Monday! Hope you had a good weekend. If you're in the UK, we've had some good news that everything should be back to normal by the 21st of June!

Where are you in the world? how are you finding the pandemic?

This week, Valheim hit 4 million players! which is absolutely nuts. There's been a huge visit increase in our Valheim server setup post. Have you tried out Valheim yet?

Issue #2 • RIP LastPass...

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Ed here at The Self-Hosting Blog. I hope you're having a great week!

This week, LastPass announced that they are feature-locking their free tier. Forcing users to choose whether they want their passwords synced to their computer, or their mobile. Not both.

Since this announcement, there has been a boom in users switching over to open-source alternatives. Bitwarden has seen a huge increase.

Below is a post that I made in August 2020 on how to set up a self-hosted version of Bitwarden Password Manager.

Issue #1 • Self-Hosting, why?

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Ed here at The Self-Hosting Blog. I hope you're having a great week!

Thanks so much for choosing to subscribe to our mailing list. I really hope we can provide you with some useful information.

I'm new to this, so I would love to hear any feedback that you have!

Feel free to get in touch, I'd love to chat with my subscribers. You can find my details on our contact page.

Newsletter on The Self-Hosting Blog

📰Issue #21 • We're back

📚 Some light reading

💰 Want to support The Self-Hosting Blog?

Issue #20 • Competition time & Fun with Ansible!

🎉Competition time!

Issue #19 • Production Wordpress migrations

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #19

Issue #18 • Blog expansion over to Forem

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #18

Issue #17 • New Horizons

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #17

Issue #16 • We're moving to monthly

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #16

Issue #15 • Tell me when I suck

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #15

🎯 Top posts from our favourite blogs

📈 Our popular posts last week!

💰 Want to support The Self-Hosting Blog?

Issue #14 • Are your services running?

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #14

Issue #13 • Switching to iPhone from Android

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #13

Issue #12 • Save time by using the Raspberry Pi Imager's hidden feature

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #12

Issue #11 • Free tunnels from Cloudflare

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #11

🎯 Top posts from our favourite bloggers

📈 Our popular posts last week!

💰 Want to support The Self-Hosting Blog?

Issue #10 • IP Masquerading and server notifications

📰 The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #10

Issue #9 • Obfuscate your online identity with an email alias

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #9

Issue #8 • De-Google! Beat the YouTube algorithm, follow your subscriptions with RSS.

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #8

Issue #7 • Don't underestimate the power of a Raspberry Pi 4

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #7

Self-hosting Papercups.io - Open-source live customer chat with Slack integration!

Issue #6 • The self-hosted alternative to Trello and Notion

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #6

Issue #5 • Secure, decentralized communication

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #5

We're now Portainer community leaders!

Issue #4 • Modern usability of the web

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #4

Issue #3 • We should be back to normal soon

The Self-Hosting Blog • Issue #3

Issue #2 • RIP LastPass...

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Issue #1 • Self-Hosting, why?

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