Submitted 2 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to selfhosted@lemmy.world
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 4: backups
The fourth article in my series about “self-hosting for newbies” explaining how I take care of backups for my YunoHost server.
I don’t get the resentment. In the end it is a hobby. You can have fun building everything from scratch. And you can have fun, using pre configured services.
What counts is that you get away from big corp.
Tough crowd. I used Yunohost back in the day. I thought it was pretty good. Great for someone who is just starting out. It has evolved, and I think the newest version boasts the largest app catalog in it’s class.
I usr it every day its great.
Don’t let 'em give you shit about your ponytail bro.
selfhosting
yunohost
pick one.
I don’t understand, how is yunohost not selfhosting ?
this is going to sound like gatekeeping, because it is.
yunohost allows anyone that couldn’t find the difference between /dev/null and their asshole the ability to deploy services on hardware. be it locally or remote VPC.
everything about that goes against the tenants that created the selfhost movement.
it also causes problems when those same ignorant “hosters” reach out to the community for help and again, can’t comprehend the technical nature of the issue at hand. they are akin to a plant that requires too much water and too much sun in the garden, and I generally pluck them out and toss them into the mulch pile.
that said, I’m sure there’s plenty of people who use yuno that have a technical background but lack the time/effort to DIY. my issue isn’t with them.
reads about the correct pronunciation
couple paragraphs below, still pronounces YounoHost the same wrong way
dammit
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
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atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You didn’t need either of those things. This reads like an ad for yunohost.
ranslite@pie.dasneuland.de 2 weeks ago
You are right, you don’t need yunohost, but it makes selfhosting pretty easy.
rimu@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
No, it’s legit. Elena has been tooting and peertubing about the fedi and her self hosting journey for over a year.
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It still reads like an ad for yunohost…
I think one of the mistakes many newb self hosters make is thinking of systems in their entirety rather than as components.
“How to install pihole on a raspberry pi” and “how to setup nextcloud on yunohost” are examples. All using very specific tools and very specific steps.
I’m noticing this more and more with documentation for apps where they tell me to use their specific docker-compose file and have instructions to use let’s encrypt in a specific way rather than referring you to let’s encrypt as an option and pointing you at their docs.
People aren’t learning how to use each of these tools and how to be flexible in their implementation.
electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I have used (and loved) Yunohost for a long time, and I host it at home. A few years back, I did set up a vps to proxy the traffic (over wireguard) so that I could actually get a letsencrypt cert. Some apps really don’t like self-signed certs.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You do not need a VPS, proxy, or wireguard for letsencrypt.
michael@piefed.chrisco.me 2 weeks ago
It sure makes things easy to host!
billwashere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You’re right in that you don’t NEED them but it sure makes things a lot easier.
Not even using yunohost… just Debian and docker.