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stopice.net is self-hosted — A reminder of why self-hosting is important. [https link] This Programmer Wants to Use Your Phone to Fight ICE (Mother Jones) From the article: Austin launched StopICE in February 2025, one of a constellation of digital tools that emerged in response to federal agents terrorizing communities. Users can text in sightings of ICE, which are then blasted out to other nearby users. This is legal: “Reporting on the activities of law enforcement is fully protected by the…
💬 6 comments · Apr 22 · 2 weeks ago
More capsule-moving woes.. My old capsule showed up in search engine results, even though I didn't tell anyone about it. I'm guessing that it's because it was just a user directory on ctrl-c.club, and the search engines index the whole server. Now that I have my own domain name, is there anything special I need to do to get search engines to take an interest? I'd like to take the old capsule down at some point.
💬 3 comments · Feb 27 · 2 months ago
Hi folks. I'm moving my Gemini capsule so it has its own domain name. I previously registered my Atom feed with Antenna, and I was wondering how I could remove it, so I could add the new one. I don't really want to clog up Antenna with _two_ copies of my ramblings. I'm not sure who looks after Antenna.
💬 3 comments · Feb 27 · 2 months ago
Plans for making a Yggdrasil mirror of my personal website + Etc — I've been thinking about doing this for a little while, and I'll just use my Windows 7 ThinkPad tablet to host the node I might also check out on trying out reticulum as well, I just need to read into how to do so on their website. I might as well make mirrors of sites I want to keep on other parts of the internet and not only staying on the https net, y'know? I already made an offline mirror of my personal website using...
💬 1 like · Feb 25 · 2 months ago
AGATE Server Setup - help needed ! can't get the certificates to be found or accepted. Is there a tutorial that you would recommend (for beginners)? The folder structure was correct last time, but I can't get Agate to automatically generate the certificates. Any tips are welcome. Thank you.
💬 3 comments · Feb 24 · 2 months ago
[SOLVED?] Quite frustrated with an issue I am not really sure how to solve... I have a Yunohost server I had been cruising with for about a month now, and I decided to add in another computer (a regular Debian 13 server) as a part of my setup. I attempted to add it using its local IP and port 80-- but I had port 80 already forwarded on my YunoHost server. I did not know at the time that this isn't something that is possible-- that returned me an error. So I thought, "simple, I just change the...
💬 13 comments · Jan 11 · 4 months ago
Self-hosting with an old laptop — I have a piece of hardware which I do not intend to use as a desktop machine ever again. It's a cheap and shitty HP laptop from 2019. AMD A6 processor, 8GB of RAM, 1TB spinning hard disk, and a DVD drive that hasn't worked in over a year. Since I have hardware from 2007 that is nicer to use than this machine, I was thinking of turning it into a server. I'd probably either install Proxmox, Alpine, HardenedBSD, or OpenBSD, and spin up a couple of lightweight...
💬 13 comments · 2025-12-24 · 4 months ago
Any good recommendation for an EU-based VPS provider?
💬 9 comments · 2025-11-21 · 5 months ago
slcl v0.4.0 release — I am happy to announce the v0.4.0 release for slcl! For those of you know do not know about slcl, think about it as Nextcloud, but without the bloat or JavaScript. slcl is written in C and requires 400 KiB of RAM (yes, KiB!) to run on a Linux server. Needless to say, it works lighting fast on older hardware, including SBCs. This new release brings several new features: thumbnails, directory downloads and security fixes. Static binaries for Linux are also available for...
💬 8 comments · 8 likes · 2025-10-10 · 7 months ago
Truly free DDNS — Unfortunately, I signed up with noip.com without reading the fine print. Yes, it is free, __BUT__ you have to confirm every month. That sounds not hard, but there is a small window during which you must confirm, like one week towards the end of the month. There is no way I am going to keep this up with my ADHD. Also there are many times that I am offline for a week. I was looking at other places which do not limit you like that, and so far a couple look promising:...
💬 13 comments · 2025-09-24 · 7 months ago
Plans for self hosting my personal website — So after some thinking to myself, I'm now planning on using Filazilla instead of Docker, since I want to be able to host my personal website and my Gemini capsule without any issues, and I'm using Windows 11 so that's another reason why, and I'll just use noip for DNS stuff, or I can code something for DNS, I'm not sure. I'll also use pollux.casa to host my Gemini capsule as well. And I'll only use Filezilla's server end stuff, since I don't think I...
💬 View post · 2025-08-31 · 8 months ago
Free hosting providers? — Are there any services out there that offer a free-tier hosting option? looking for a VPS besides from Amazon. ideally something less corporate and more "cyberpunk" with XMR payments, though that's not necessary. if the topic isn't apporpiate it's only because I couldn't find a more suiting forum.
💬 7 comments · 1 like · 2025-08-15 · 9 months ago
— 8by3.net/~sbr/others/tech/2025-07-29.audio-book-shelf.gmi
Its not gemini but audio bookshelf is pretty cool. Just setup an instance inside a freebsd jail
💬 1 like · 2025-07-29 · 9 months ago
Here are a few links about dealing with the recent influx of server-killing bots attacking just about everything.
💬 1 like · 2025-07-25 · 9 months ago
Does MyBB support gemini? any forum software recommendations? I'm looking for a ready-made forum software like MyBB that has compatibility with Gopher/gemini
💬 2 comments · 2025-07-16 · 10 months ago
What is the current state of home hosting? — I've been running a VPS for about 20 years now. The internet situation at home has been pretty crappy for most of that time so I never really ran a setup at home. A few Pis running some services and that is all. Now that I have xfinity's gig fiber with unlimited bandwidth for the next 6 years, I'm wondering what the current state of self hosting at home is. Way back when if you had the ports for Postfix open you'd get a call from your ISP saying...
💬 11 comments · 1 like · 2025-07-15 · 10 months ago
I have a little 12GB / 192MB RAM VPS that I pay $15/yr for (yes, once a year haha). It mostly runs a Telegram MTProto proxy. I was thinking about starting up a tinylog though - what's the easiest tinylog service that could run a HTTPS and Gemini page?
💬 2 comments · 2025-06-28 · 10 months ago
Not quite sure how to react to this... I guess I feel seen, even through a reverse proxy and several layers of obfuscation. [https link]
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2025-05-18 · 1 year ago
We really should host our own email servers on VPSes — I got an email reply from someone who discovered my email 10 days after sending in his spam folder. I'm not sure why - maybe he hosts his domain at Outlook.com or Gmail and it's difficult to build up reputation for these A-holes. Or it may be because my VPS provider is on the UCEPROTECT-L3 blocklist (again). But I really like plaintext email despite all of it's problems. So I think the smolnet/IndieWeb community members should run their own...
💬 38 comments · 4 likes · 2024-08-28 · 2 years ago
Using an Android tablet as a web server? — I have a Lenovo K-10 tablet lying around and I wondered whether it is possible to use it to serve a website / onionsite. If this is possible, what is the best way to achieve so?
💬 3 comments · 2024-06-18 · 2 years ago · #android #web-server
UNIX way/KISS monitoring and alerting What do you use to monitor multiple machines/servers/services/etc? I am interested in the most simple, flexible, and robust approach to monitoring/alerting. What kind of software, approaches, etc. Systems like Nagios/Icinga and Zabbix seem to me very overloaded and are one big point of failure. I know about Monit, Munin, RRDTools. But are there any even simplest options? It is possible even without external dependencies, i.e. databases, or even without...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2024-04-21 · 2 years ago
slcl 0.2.1 release — I have just released slcl v0.2.1, a bugfix release for a minimalist web file server written in C for Unix-like systems. It is strongly recommended that existing instances update to the newer version when possible. If you have never heard about this project before, it aims to provide similar features to Nextcloud's "Files" webapp, but using ~100x less resources. It has almost no dependencies and relies on libweb, a HTTP web...
💬 24 comments · 4 likes · 2024-02-23 · 2 years ago
slcl 0.2.0 release — I have just released slcl v0.2.0, a minimalist web file server written in C for Unix-like systems: [https link] slcl v0.2.0 release If you have never heard about this project before, it aims to provide similar features to Nextcloud's "Files" webapp, but using ~100x less resources. It has almost no dependencies and relies on libweb, a HTTP web server library written from scratch in C. Static Linux binaries for x86 and x86_64 are already available, and aarch64 and armv7...
💬 3 comments · 3 likes · 2024-02-12 · 2 years ago
Bulletin boards on the web — I’ve been tasked with setting up and administering a private bulletin board service for the alumni of a wilderness school I am part of. I could see this being used by anywhere from 50 to 500 people. I would just use an instance of Bubble if it were not for the fact that Gemini is not particularly accessible to the average user. What simple self hosted options for the web would you recommend? Minimalism is key. I don’t want setting it up to be a nightmare, and I don’...
💬 8 comments · 2 likes · 2023-12-31 · 2 years ago
phone-hosted gemini/gopher server? I found this interesting software for android and saw that the ports that could be used aren't in the gopher range. Has anyone tried to set up a server on their phone for gopher or gemini?
💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2023-11-01 · 3 years ago
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