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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

I am immensely grateful to the Fediverse for all the encouragement I got here to embark on a #selfhosting journey.

#YunoHost has empowered my digital life in immeasurable ways.

My way of giving back - and fighting the broligarchs of Big Tech - is to create a guide that demystifies the process. I have compiled all my posts so far in a single page:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost/

If you're curious about self-hosting but you haven't taken the leap yet, I hope my articles will be helpful to you ❤️

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Roland Woldt
Roland Woldt
@rolandwoldt@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@_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 iinstall in @nextcloud now (hinthint for article #5).

Thanks, again 🙂

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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@rolandwoldt thank you Roland! You’re not the only person with this problem (heard from multiple people) so I may write a dedicated article about DNS records.

Happy self-hosting and keep me in the loop 😊

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Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)
Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)
@etnmarchand@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@_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.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@etnmarchand yes... but as I wrote in my backup piece my VPS does automated daily backups for me...and keeps several of them, going back in time up to 2 weeks, so it gives me peace of mind... 🥲

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Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)
Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)
@etnmarchand@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@_elena Ah. Well, I will have to experiment then since I plan to run it on an old PC in my basement (at least to start). I better make sure I know how to restore before relying on it.

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Federation Bot
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@Federation_Bot replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

@_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! 🙏

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