I feel like the richest person in the world: I still have a line of credit of 18.19 Euros on #Hetzner (I had pre-paid 20 Euros to set up my account 2 months ago).

Not sure how it's possible I spent less than 2 Euros with all the servers I started and stopped and apps I ran on them, but hey, I'm now on cloud nine.

There's so much I can still experiment with!!! 🤗

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting ​

I feel like the richest person in the world: I still have a line of credit of 18.19 Euros on #Hetzner (I had pre-paid 20 Euros to set up my account 2 months ago).

Not sure how it's possible I spent less than 2 Euros with all the servers I started and stopped and apps I ran on them, but hey, I'm now on cloud nine.

There's so much I can still experiment with!!! 🤗

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting ​

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩‍🏭

a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-316-realist-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 316 (realist edition) 👩‍🏭

a blog post in which I discuss how my #Sharkey misadventures provided some illuminating insights... including how grateful I am for self-hosted software that just works (hello @gotosocial). Also: I'm super grateful for the dot world group that allows me to have a Sharkey account that actually works as intended (thanks @ruud )!

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-316-realist-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #SelfHosting

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 315 (desert island edition) 🏝️

a blog post that chronicles my struggles self-hosting a #Sharkey instance.

Yes I have it up and running now but I encountered some unexpected new problems: search and limited federation! With a broken search function I feel stranded on a desert island...

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-315-desert-island-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

🏕️ my adventures in self-hosting: day 315 (desert island edition) 🏝️

a blog post that chronicles my struggles self-hosting a #Sharkey instance.

Yes I have it up and running now but I encountered some unexpected new problems: search and limited federation! With a broken search function I feel stranded on a desert island...

🔗​: https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-adventures-in-self-hosting-day-315-desert-island-edition/

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Good morning and happy Monday Fedi friends! 🌞​

I found a solution to my #Sharkey installation issues!!! (Something as simple as setting the access permission to "visitors", duh). Thank you kind #YunoHost Forum member for setting me on the right path. The 7th time was the charm 🙃​

I'm SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! #Sharkey AKA my favorite Fediverse social software, here we goooooooo

P.S.: in case you're wondering, I will be keeping my #Mastodon account as my main and this #GoToSocial account to share my #selfhosting adventures. Sharkey will be a much smaller profile, private, to just interact with friends and contacts. My little quiet corner of the Fediverse (my two current accounts can get so noisy sometimes, with 100+ daily mentions on Mastodon alone). I'm setting up a fun little zen garden with Sharkey 💁‍♀️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

Good morning and happy Monday Fedi friends! 🌞​

I found a solution to my #Sharkey installation issues!!! (Something as simple as setting the access permission to "visitors", duh). Thank you kind #YunoHost Forum member for setting me on the right path. The 7th time was the charm 🙃​

I'm SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! #Sharkey AKA my favorite Fediverse social software, here we goooooooo

P.S.: in case you're wondering, I will be keeping my #Mastodon account as my main and this #GoToSocial account to share my #selfhosting adventures. Sharkey will be a much smaller profile, private, to just interact with friends and contacts. My little quiet corner of the Fediverse (my two current accounts can get so noisy sometimes, with 100+ daily mentions on Mastodon alone). I'm setting up a fun little zen garden with Sharkey 💁‍♀️​

#MySoCalledSudoLife

​ Attention #YunoHost users ​

I bring you my #SelfHosting facepalm moment of the day.

PSA for you, which may save you some time. Learn from my lesson!

I attempted to connect to my VPS (running YunoHost) in Terminal, with SSH. I couldn't get in... the password kept getting rejected.

Then I put the VPS in "rescue mode" and generated a new root password. That didn't work either.

Then I restored the VPS from yesterday's snapshot. Hetzner emailed me a new password. Which didn't work.

Then I remembered: YunoHost disables root access. The only username that works for SSH is YOUR YUNOHOST ADMIN username, gaaaah.

End of my PSA I hope this saves you some time 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #CertifiedNewbie

​ Attention #YunoHost users ​

I bring you my #SelfHosting facepalm moment of the day.

PSA for you, which may save you some time. Learn from my lesson!

I attempted to connect to my VPS (running YunoHost) in Terminal, with SSH. I couldn't get in... the password kept getting rejected.

Then I put the VPS in "rescue mode" and generated a new root password. That didn't work either.

Then I restored the VPS from yesterday's snapshot. Hetzner emailed me a new password. Which didn't work.

Then I remembered: YunoHost disables root access. The only username that works for SSH is YOUR YUNOHOST ADMIN username, gaaaah.

End of my PSA I hope this saves you some time 😅​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #CertifiedNewbie

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈​

File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.

So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.

I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.

How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.

The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.

Time went like this:

1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)

4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade

5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)

7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install

9m30s in: post installation complete

11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.

14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳​

Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting

Good morning Fedi friends and happy Saturday! 🌈​

File under: I'm such a clown sometimes. I did something extremely foolish yesterday (installation-wise) that bricked my whole YunoHost with Sharkey instance. This is not the fault of YunoHost or Sharkey, it's just me being the biggest airhead.

So this morning I nuked that VPS (Hetzner makes it so easy to start and stop) and, armed with a stopwatch, I wanted to see how long it would take me to order a new server, log in, install YunoHost and set up a main URL and a subdomain to log in.

I had this unique challenge that we're going hiking in the mountains so my time is very limited this morning.

How long did it take me? A grand total of 14 minutes.

The perks of being a fool is that you repeat the steps so many times that you go from being terrified (what do I have to do now?) to just sailing through the steps.

Time went like this:

1m30s: logged onto Hetzner, ordered a new server (Debian v12)

4m50s in: logged in, increased security, ran apt update and apt upgrade

5m in: installed YunoHost (thanks #curl)

7m30s in: with YunoHost successfully installed, I got into their beautiful graphical interface to continue the post install

9m30s in: post installation complete

11m 20s in: began tweaking DNS records for the main domain and the logging in subdomain, installed certificates, etc.

14m23s = all done, tripled checked that everything is working in incognito mode (it is) 🥳​

Wishing you all a great day. Time to go hiking for me and my fam 🗻​

#MySoCalledSudoLife #selfhosting