This newbie who just celebrated 100 days of #selfhosting was able to install #Apache and #Varnish on her #Ubuntu VPS (to prevent the "Mastodon Hug of Death" for link preview cards on her self-hosted Ghost blog). She's very proud of herself for all the sudo commands she successfully ran today. And she's weirded out talking about herself in the third person, so: I did it YAY.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Linux / self-hosting journey I'm on. Thank you for all your support & encouragement ❤️
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Elena. (she/ her)
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in reply to wakest ⁂ • • •@liaizon aw thank you! It means a lot coming from you.
Well, after my PeerTube miniseries I will write about what it's like to self-host with the help of #YunoHost. It's very very easy to do (including updating / maintaining things). I'm self-hosting Friendica, GoToSocial and Pixelfed thanks to YunoHost.
My self-hosted Ghost blog is on another VPS and a whole different story - pure command line prompts for that one. Trickier but very satisfying 🤗
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Did you come to use #Hitch as TLS proxy too?
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Basically, Hitch manages all the encrypted TLS traffic (the security layer that is being used by HTTPS), then you don't need to manage encryption on the apache/nginx side.
Being able to handle all your private keys in a single place is very comfortable.
It might be possible your hosting service is already managing encryption for you, that being the reason you don't actually have to bother about that.
varnish-software.com/developer…
Terminating TLS in Varnish with Hitch
Varnish Developer PortalSantiago
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •you are on a fast track to total sysadmin expert here!
I've dealt a bit with Varnish but it was some time ago. it did work very well!
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in reply to Santiago • • •@sanzky haha the best compliment, thanks! ☺️
And yes I’m really liking Varnish
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in reply to Isadora 🏳️⚧️ • • •@isadora @thecoffemaker I already initiated a mass migration to Signal in Jan 2020 for family and friends (to keep in touch with me - cause I was OUT).
But they all still use WhatsApp (in addition to Signal) 😕
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •completely abandon WhatsApp is an almost impossible mission :( Local businesses, govern services, banks and a lot of people and institutions end up forcing us to keep a WhatsApp account... but the fact they have an alternative is fantastic!
I'm also a "forced" WhatsApp user, but my family and close friends are using XMPP to keep up with me and these 16 people have all my heart to accept talk to me by my own messenger that I lovely call isaCloud Messenger 😁
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •(Hows the haircut? I did mine the other day and made a mess of it.)
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Ellie Kennard • • •@elliek thanks!
Re: the haircut is a bit messy but it’s hard to notice because I have long wavy hair (it could be a style the unevenness) 😅
Ellie Kennard
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Have a great weekend Elena!
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I love how you went from "hey this is a neat social media site" to running linux servers and stuff!
Are you mostly driven by the value of the Fediverse or do you just have plenty of energy fully dive into anything you get interested in?
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to calvin 🛋️ • • •The rebellion will be federated — Elena Rossini
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •hi! That is great! I don’t think I’d have leveled up so fast by myself
If you ever find yourself in need of performance optimization, I put up some tips over here, and some of them might be useful:
github.com/GuillaumeRossolini/…
GitHub - GuillaumeRossolini/il: Collection of tips to improve web page loading times
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Going from dipping a cautious toe on the Mastodon beach to plunging head first into the Marinara Trench of Linux and Fediverse self-hosting.
And evangelising about it in such a great accessible way.
You have a lot of stuff to be proud of.
Elena Rossini ⁂
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