azron

@azron@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for help/guidance on how to setup a server for a business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I already have a VPN always on on my system, do I need to set up a gluetun container?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s correct and a good way to test it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server Monitoring software recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Munin is a tried and true solution. It installs on the server creates graphs and makes it easy to see a stair step graph to problems like out of memory.

  I’d also highly recommend installing atop and having it collect stats every 1 to 2 minutes. You can go to a crashed server and step through what was running in a “top” like interfsce. I install atop on any server as a means for post incident diagnosis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS Alternative to Chromecast?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also hopeful fcast gets some more love. The ability to mirror my whole android screen to an fcast server would be great they have servers for Mac, Linux, Windows, and Android but not a lot of clients.

  Grayjay integration works well I use it instead of casting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a music server⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ampache with subsonic for app support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exporting YouTube Subscriptions to OPML and Watching via RSS⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for posting!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bash.org is gone⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A true bash.org reader :)