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"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 2: installation & setup"

🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…

with a special shout-out to @shollyethan and @ilja who, a year ago, encouraged me to try self-hosting. And of course immense gratitude to the @yunohost team for making all this possible ❤️

I hope this guide may inspire others to try it, too. The path to digital independence and empowerment is easier than you thought...

#selfhosting #FOSS #empowerment

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

Thanks, that looks similar to the way I tested it a few days ago on my local dev machine in Qemu, but I haven't set up firewall and DynDns yet.

So for now I can only test .local installations like searx, yacy, piped, peertube, anarchism etc.

I'm glad I didn't tried to install it on my regular machine, that would make it unusable, with freedombox a parallel setup seems possible.

At the end I want to have two Peertubes, one at home and one for production.

This entry was edited (16 hours ago)
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

One thing I discovered when first installing Yunohost : you can use a free Yunohost domain name, but chose your name carefully, because you can only pick one free domain name.
in reply to Michel Patrice

@MichelPatrice good point! I didn't mention free domain names because I believe owning your own domain name is far more empowering - than depending on an external free service.

I personally do domain name registrar hopping: get a great deal, then if prices increase the next year, I change registrar because you can always find cheaper deals... but that's just me. gotta run out now, thanks Michel!

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

And thank you for this guide, I will use the part about installing your own domain name.

I use the free Yunohost domain name, but when I wanted to set my own domain name, the instructions were a little ambiguous.

So I will go over your guide, à tête reposée, to finally set up my own carefully nerdishly picked domain name.

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

great guide and screenshots for everything

Get free SSL certificate, estimated time 1 minute - how cool

This entry was edited (15 hours ago)
in reply to Bradley

@bradley thank you Bradley. I have to say, YunoHost's own guide is amazing but I wanted to write something super visual for true newbies... the kind of stuff I wish was around a year ago when I was researching self-hosting.

And yes, the speed of SSL certificate installation is incredible!

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

if I have a personal domain I use for email with Proton, do I need a different domain for self hosting photos, files, etc?
in reply to Timelime 🐸

@TimeLime no! Example: I use elenarossini.com for my Wordpress-powered blog (hosted outside of YunoHost)... but then I set up the subdomains photos.elenarossini.com for my self-hosted Pixelfed and videos.elenarossini.com for my self-hosted PeerTube 🤗
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

@TimeLime just one quick addendum: in your case I wouldn't edit/tweak TXT and MX records for your top level domain, since they're connected to Proton. But it's a good idea to ask in the forum what to do