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I also really like the tunnels feature. It makes self hosting at home easy for those under NAT/CGNAT or whatever it was called.

Porkbun asks for your ID now so that might not be “privacy-respecting” but their CS is very helpful from my experience.

I have domains in Netim and Spaceship, and I have no problems with either so far.

https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/branch/main/pict-rs.toml

pict-rs has the option to compress images. Ours is set to WEBP with 1280 pixels either side max.

I don’t remember which update it was but newer versions of Lemmy use significantly less database storage.

I recommend checking out lowendtalk.com if you’re shopping for VPS hosting providers.

I really want to say Gandi but they charge too much now and removed the free mailboxes.

Anyway, I’ll vouch for Netim. Their prices are similar to (old) Gandi and they have a mailbox too. I’m looking into Spaceship for some other domains because they’re really cheap.

I’m using Netim right now for my personal domain. They’re a bit expensive (similar to Gandi’s old prices) but it does come with email which is nice.

Disk space is a bit of a concern since I started hosting this instance. The Lemmy database is 12.2GB and pictrs is 1.8GB after a little over a month. I set all images to convert to WEBP and scale down to save on disk space but the database is growing pretty fast. From my understanding, they already fixed this and we’re just waiting for 0.18.3 to release.

I used to name my cloud VMs after Monogatari characters but now I just settle with xxn.domain.tld so it’s easy to remember when I need to SSH into one.

• xx = shortcode for which service the VM is from (for example Azure = az, DigitalOcean = do)

• n = VM number from 1-9

do2.domain.tld

• Lemmy
• Red Discord Bot
• Matrix Synapse

Interesting. I might try this out later.

There’s a lot of subs like these which I don’t want to name. Basically, subs with anti-corpo principles but refuses to leave corpo Reddit. I’m happy for the subs who are still dark even until now (and even more reason to be now that Reddit is deleting older DMs and removing awards/coins).

My favorite r/selfhosted comment.

I do something similar with rclone. Most server software have some way of creating backups. Have that software create a backup and use rclone to move the file over to some cloud storage. Rclone also has the option to delete older stuff (rclone delete --min-age 7d). Do all that with a shell script and add it to the crontab.

A lot of services have some kind of way to create backup files. I have cronjobs doing that daily then uploading it to some cloud storage with rclone.

I tried and really had problems with mail servers sending my mails straight to spam even with DKIM, DMARC, etc. I ended up using the free mail service that comes with my domain.

I’ve tried setting limit for posts, images, and comments (5/300) and that broke the instance.

Caddy was my first and it’s very easy to use. I use nginx nowadays because I heard it scales better. It’s harder to use but manageable enough.

Depending on the type of website you’re hosting, you can probably just use Cloudflare pages or Netlify instead of hosting it at home with a Pi.

My domain registrar (Netim) comes with free email so I use that. They’re kind of expensive though.