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Moving Instances

I will be deleting this account in a few days. My new temporary home will be etmarchand@friendica.opensocial.space while I work to set up my own self hosted server. You may get a follow request from the other account. That is indeed me.

I am manually re-following rather than transferring the account. I end up having to go through and "re-follow" anyway usually (having now done this 4 times). It was a good opportunity to trim my follows. I choosing only (mostly) people this time and dumping news and tech sites. I follow those on Bluesky and Mastodon. Don't need to repeat it on Friendica. Will clean up my "feed" considerably and let me see what I actually want to see - people!

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Useful Link (for me at least)

#useful-links #linux

etnmarchand

2026-02-23 02:33:07

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Found a good link while watching videos on various uses of Docker to set up personal server(s). Figure it is a good refresher for me. I'm mostly self taught with linux so this should cover any gaps in my basic knowledge. I've gone through a few topics so far and it is mostly review for me. I need to really go through their networking selections since THAT is what I'm going to be fussing with the most. I think I have a good grasp on the basics of networking. I have installed network printers and copiers as part of my job so things like IP addresses, Host names, port numbers, etc. don't phase me. Connecting all that to the outside world and domain name management… that is new to me. I'm looking forward to playing around with self-hosting! Posting the link in case anyone else needs an introduction to linux concepts and practices.

labex.io/linuxjourney

#learn-linux #Self-Hosting #Fediverse #useful-links


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My old Mac Mini(s)

My previous post didn't actually post - might be queued up so this might sort of duplicate - BUT....

I found BOTH of my old Mac Mini (2012)'s while digging out power cables and keyboards to get ready for my new cheap mini PC arriving tomorrow. Originally, I'd thought about dusting off one of those for my server experiments. Now I'm thinking I will use one for my REALLY experimental server. So the new one will be my "production" machine. The old Mini will be my testing machine.

Already powered up the first one. It contains my still functioning copy of Adobe Creative Suite 4, so NOT touching that one. I occasionally need to do stuff in Adobe. I may set it up headless when I build out my server desk under the stairs in the basement. I can Screen Share in when I need to use it.

Still need to power up the other Mac Mini and make sure there is nothing on it I need to pull off before replacing the OLD spinning hard drive with an SSD and sticking linux on it.

#Self-Hosting #Fediverse

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More Planning on Self Hosting

So I came home from work and sketched out a logo concept for my new domain. Nowhere near the final version... just a rough sketch.
It is probably good that the computer shipping is taking a full week. Had it arrived next day I would have already borked and reinstalled the entire OS at least half a dozen times. It also gave me time to figure out an overall plan for the installations I want to test out.
Of course, I will have to wipe Windows off the system and stick Linux on it. I'll probably start with a WordPress install and get a basic "blog" page up so my domain name actually lands on something. I'll usr Docker to install WordPress. I have zero experience with it, but it seems to be the way to go these days.
I want to do installs of Bonfire and Friendica after that. Friendica, especially, I want to use long term. After a LOT of thought about it, I will install it in a virtual machine. I can make regular clones of the VM drive. So if I bork something doing an update - I can remove the main "drive" and drop in the clone to restore everything quickly.
Anyway, think I have a plan in place. Maybe by the end of next weekend I'll have stage 1 up and running.

#Fediverse #self-hosting

Logo for upcoming web site. Text MP with a roof shape on top and a small flower beside.

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Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)

@gmc I debated a number of ways to do back ups for it. For the Friendica instance, it will be a small single user (me) instance. Simply copying the VBox drive (VMWare calls it cloning) is the easiest solution that I know how to do right now. The WordPress install is just WordPress. I'll make backups of my actual site which can be moved and/or restored anywhere easily.

I really DO need to learn how to backup and restore things... the Linux way. I assume Docker containers should be easy enough?? I just have zero experience with Docker yet.

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gmc

Docker is pretty convenient indeed. It's how I run my friendica instance and I love how easy it is to update the container.

For bonus points, you could look at podman. It's completely compatible with docker, everything works the same, except it doesn't use root for all containers, so more security.

As for backups, generally, you only need to backup the data volumes, since the docker images themselves can be rebuilt from scratch easily if needed, and you don't normally modify anything in the images.

What's your plan for backups?

Anyway, if you have questions along the way, feel free to ask. I'm a huge self-hosting proponent, and the more people self host the happier I am 😀

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Etienne le Marchand (Steve J)

@gmc I haven't figured out backups yet. My original plan was to put each platform in a dedicated VM and simply make backups of VM drives. This seemed manageable since I'm not opening registration for anyone other than myself. This is VERY much a learning server for me. I want to learn how to deploy and maintain them. Some day I'd like to host with a provider and allow for users to create accounts. So I better figure out how to back up and restore data lol!

I may still stick my personal Friendica server in a VM. It is the easiest solution I can think of - and most stable long term for self hosting I think. I want to experiment with Bonfire (I like their long term road map). And maybe Hubzilla. I'll probably install go to social as well since it is supposed to be relatively easy to install and maintain. I might start with it once I have WordPress installed.

I may have questions once I get started (the computer itself is scheduled for delivery tomorrow). There will be a few days of getting linux on it and getting it ready. I did already flash the USB drive so ready to install right out of the box - in my spare time around a day job haha.

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Coming soon... Adventures in Self-Hosting

So I've been planning to experiment with self hosting for a while. I mostly want to host my own Friendica (so I can have all the connectors I want), maybe Hubzilla, and probably Bonfire - a new modular platform under development. Realistically, I'm watching for the first/best Facebook alternative and getting to know it from the hosting side. I plan to start on a headless linux box in my basement. I think it will give me a sense of the bandwidth and storage needed for the average account. They will be closed servers (me only) for now. I may add a few close friends when I want to see how it scales.

Anyway, today I took the first step and payed for my domain name. I'm very happy with it. I think it can scale fine if I decide to switch to paid hosting and open up any platform(s) I decide to run. Probably won't get things up and public until April or May. I am excited to start experimenting!!!!

#self-hosting #fedivers

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WordPress Connection from Friendica

Testing out - hopefully for the last time - my connector from Friendica to WordPress. If you are reading this on my blog, the previous Friendica server (instance) I was using is shutting down on the January 1st. I have found a new home and am migrating my account. It should be seamless from your perspective. You won't notice anything different. But getting things working right always requires testing the new configuration. So here goes!

#test

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Problems moving over....

@Nanook

Hello. I just imported my account from a soon to close instance. I'm trying to set up my network connectors by using the Social Networks "tab" in Settings. It gives me an HTTP 500 This Page Isn't Working - friendica.eskimo.com is currently unable to handle this request error every time. Any idea what is causing it?

Also, hello. Nice to be on a local PNW instance for a change! 😀

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