One-month Journey in Self-Hosting Pleroma

It has been two years since i joined the Fediverse, and in the spirit of self-hosting everything i can, i have set up my own Pleroma instance on my VPS. Technical Aspect Since i have been setting up everything as a Docker container, i was looking for guides to install…

One Year of Self-Hosting in Review, Pt. 1

Exactly a year ago, I decided to buy a meagre VPS with 1 CPU, 1GB memory, and 20GB storage, intending to learn more about Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and clouds in general.…

Adding Custom Analytics Script to HEAD in WriteFreely

This morning, I wanted to add self-hosted analytic script, Umami, to this site. I always liked the colourful graph and stats of a website traffic, and this should be a privacy-respecting way to do it without giving into the dreaded Google Analytics. One of the joy of hosting your own…

Calibre and Calibre-Web are Two Different Things

First of all, shoutout to you guys on Linuxserver for maintaining such a high-quality list of Docker images. Books always have a special place in my heart. And following my self-hosting excitement, naturally i'm interested in managing my (e-)books. Folks over on Linuxserver Awesome List have recommendation…

Self-hosting, Easy or Complicated?

Well, i have finally rented a server to tinker with. Self-hosting has been on the back of my mind for the few years, and i'm excited. But now, how do i do it? First Steps I often visit r/selfhosted, and it's a good point to…