@_elena Thanks for creating this guide and it helped me to gain a little bit more digital freedom 🙂

The only tricky thing was the DNS setup (and figuring out what it meant what I was shown on the screen), but that was because I haven't done that before. A couple of screenshots from your Hostinger example (blurred out where needed) would have been helpful.

It all works now and I have to figure out what to install in @nextcloud now (hinthint for article #5).

Thanks, again 🙂

@_elena I'm also getting ready to play with YunoHost (I'm doing the spare PC in my basement route) so appreciate your articles. Hopefully you are planning to do a "how to restore from backup" as well. I figure eventually, something will go drastically wrong.

@_elena
Where did you get your domain name? Does it point to a VPS or to an "home hosted" machine?

@_elena

DEAR FEDIVERSE / MASTODON

i have identified the real life identity of John Mastodon

her name is Elena Rossini

Elena you fucking rock 💪😤

@_elena I got inspiration from your posts to try yunohost, but for hosting nextcloud at home. It's all up and running now 👌

The only issue with that was the lack of documentation for absolute beginners for installing on a home server.

@_elena thanks for introducing me to Yuno Host. I've set up linux servers and docker containers, but I don't want to do it again. I see other novices having good experiences with Yuno Host https://lemmy.world/post/37132643

I haven't finished your guide yet, but I must start keeping my services LAN-only until until I learn enough about the security side of things. That's another area that I hope becomes unified too (if it isn't already).

@_elena Have you actually suffered any attacks yet?

Could be you wouldn't know unless you're looking into this sort of thing. Have you looked at the logs and stuff to see what it's default defense mechanisms have stopped? I believe it has built in fail2ban and such, no?

@_elena
Thanx, that was new to me.
I' ll give it a try.

@_elena Thank you for this article. I'm not young(!), and I'm making my way, cautiously, into the world outside Google, Facebook, etc, etc. I'm discovering a new language that I'm finding confusing at my age, but I'm determined to press on and loosen the grip of the giants, with the help of people like you. Thank you! 🙏

@_elena this is great! Thank you!

@_elena Thank you for sharing your journey and learnings--you rock!!! 🙌

It's one I embarked on a few years ago, and was daunting, humbling, and also fun and empowering.

My biggest win: I can now access my old phone photos easily, without needing to pay Forever Rent™️ to #apple for #iCloud thanks to the brilliant software #immich

@_elena Self Hosting is so liberating. You set your own rules.

For me, it's about posting what I like without fear of some silly sausage moaning to an Admin about me. 🤣

Obviously, I have to behave on mastodon.org.uk
(Well, a bit, at any rate.😉 )

@_elena

Hoping @ThomHartmann will get off the oligabro sites and do this soon

@_elena I am with yunohost too. Installed castopod, writefreely, mastodon, webmin and Nextcloud. It is another live with self hosting