Learn to self host now.

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@vkc Did this. Can confirm, it's awesome.

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@vkc While it's occasionally frustrating, I overall love it. Use Immich and Emby and Syncthing and NextCloud every single day.

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Serious question: why do you say, so? Why now?

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I would say.... Learn to self‑host remotely.

If you’re American, the last thing you want is for everything to be stored locally on your computer and easily taken.

Due process is clearly out the window. Your rights to privacy and personal property are gone, too. People detained by ICE lose their phones and are never given them back. Your personal computer can also be seized.

Yes, host things yourself — but do it outside U.S. jurisdiction. That means avoiding large corporations like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. Choose infrastructure overseas, where your government cannot simply claim your data or hardware.


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@vkc It's probably worth distinguishing between services to better scope the project, especially since various projects will require varying levels of public exposure and various kinds of resources.

I'd recommend starting people off with building their own firewall so they're less at risk from their own ISPs. This will be really good practice for setting up complex services like email.

#selfhosting

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@vkc
I did. When it wasn't really necessary but just seemed interesting. Nothing fancy, just Nextcloud on an old desktop machine lurking in a garden shed.

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@elena @yunohost @beaufils @vkc ️ y'all are the best, thank you!!

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@vkc it's not the server that seems tough to me - it's the networking.

For now, I'm satisfied to keep my website on a hosting service in the EU (which was a very intentional choice).

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@lgsp @vkc Age verification. Jeff Bezos wants to kill local computing in favour of cloud and AI computing.

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@santiago @vkc It is certainly time to install Linux and opensource software and learn how to use it... I am tending towars Fedora. But I look towards Debians, CachyOS and other linuxes.

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@vkc Last year, I moved URLs and Mail server from AWS cloud to Hetzner and started to host my own Mailcow instance, all on baremetal. Maybe I will expand to more services.

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@redliria @vkc do you know if yunohost allows dedicating subdomains to different services?

Ie
Nextcloud.example.com
Wiki.example.com

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@vkc My son and I have all our parts together for a media server. We'll use Linux (haven't decided on which one) and OpenCloud. We're really excited to get our entire family off of Google.