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Selfhosted
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I got into self-hosting quite by accident. I had just started on Mastodon when I saw somebody posted about self-hosting and Cloudflare tunnels. I went to their blog, followed the guides, and next thing I knew I had a fully functioning Mastodon docker instance. From there I began wondering about other ActivityPub services were out there. In January I get rid of the Cloudflare tunnel and stood up a free Oracle VPS.
I created a wireguard tunnel between my home server and my VPS. I then installed nginx on the VPS as a reverse proxy. I've been hooked ever since. I moved my blog to hosting at home. I stood up a Lemmy instance. Next move is standing up a BookWyrm one. I am in now hooked.
I really want to host my own email but I've been rightly disuaded from doing so because the Big Bois don't play well with small email servers, even ones that have been correctly and sanely configured.
Try mailcow and follow their manual on configuration. Gmail, some big european mail providers, smaller organisations, my mails arrive everywhere. Despite having a somewhat dodgy tld.
Okay, I will give it a try again.