azron
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- Comment on Having trouble with my caddy congif for my lemmy instance 5 days ago:
How are you doing your certs with this set up?
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 5 weeks ago:
DNS challenge so you can get a wildcard cert? Or is it still per domain? I haven’t looked recently but it seemed difficult but I’d like to avoid transparency log installs where I can.
- Comment on Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS? 1 month ago:
*autofs
- Comment on Explanation in Biology (New Book) 2 months ago:
PDF is available right on the page. Take a look and decide if it is interesting to you?
- Comment on Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages 2 months ago:
Oh that is mildly interesting, my mistake. So the actual commits didn’t change but the pull requests are made to look like they are something else.
- Comment on Hacked pipelines defaced Microsoft's WSL repository with pro-Palestine messages 2 months ago:
Hacked pipeline? These are just pull requests anyone can submit them.
- Comment on Podman rootless and ufw 2 months ago:
What expected problems did podman end up surorising you with? Is the software more stable and not constantly updated like docker? I want to move to podman at some point as well and I understand for a lot of cases it is just “drop in” but I run a lot of containers and I’m skeptical it’ll be that simple.
Especially with software distros like home assistant and matrix both explicitly pushing you to official docker due to some features.
- Comment on FUTO just made a 14hrs long video introduction to Selfhosting! (plus a written version) 💾 2 months ago:
This mentality is backwards. Hosting email has pitfalls yes but in a world where more people do it the less deep those pitfalls will become.
If you are curious and want to host email go for it!
- Comment on Looking for help/guidance on how to setup a server for a business 5 months ago:
Right you said that above and that is what resulted in my larger response. Reiterating without any more information doesn’t really change your position in a tangible way. I appreciate that is your stance and man others’ stance. I think we need to encourage the opposite to change the landscape of the internet.
- Comment on Looking for help/guidance on how to setup a server for a business 5 months ago:
We, selfhosters and sysadmins alike, need to change our tune around the position of “do not self host email.” It only serves to keep email in the grip of big tech. Yes it is difficult and someone without any experience shouldn’t start there but it is definitely manageable and not nearly as hard as it is made out to be.
There are multiple email “distributions” nowadays making the software stack set up and maintenance effectively an exercise in running a regular Linux distro upgrade. Mailinabox and mailcow to name two off the top of my head.
The DNS records are relatively straightforward to set up and validate with these mail distros, they basically tell you what to put and provide ways of validating you did sbay they said you should. There are also many ways to test that you set them up properly by having a service validate them via email you send to the testing service, e.g. mail-tester.com and dmarctester.com, finally DMARC has a port function builtin so you can get regulsr delivery reports that come directly from the servers choosing what to do with your email giving you a clear signal when there are problems.
You don’t have to jump into hard mode around a clean IP either you can offload that for a nominal fee to an email service provider if you don’t want to try your luck, e.g. MXroute.com has a one time fee for multiple domains.
Yes email is convulted and confusing at times and scary to host given how essential it is but I’d encourage anyone with the time and desire to do it.