one of the achievements of lemmy might be as a nice platform for simply running a forum for whatever community you want all without needing to worry about federation.

I’m interested in this question for the inverse reason: being able to run a federated community on a Lemmy server which is not open-invite

People in the Lemmyverse would be able to use the community as normal, but running the community on its own server would not involve opening the door to registration by randos on that server.

If you want to avoid SMR performance penalties, the 1TB HGST Travelstar 7K1000 HTE721010A9E630 is one of the biggest CMR 2.5" drives I’ve found, and it’s 7200rpm and rated for 24/7 operation to boot.

I have a background (in the distant past) as a PHP dev, and currently make my income doing mostly Wordpress work.

For a very long time I took a jaundiced eye towards big PHP apps for the exact same reasons. That being said, I just two days ago finally installed Nextcloud in my homelab and exposed it to the world.

It’s worth noting that a lot of PHP’s bad rep comes from Wordpress, which is terrible in security terms in large part due to a huge and very poorly vetted ecosystem of plugins written by coders of all skill levels.

PHP itself had a number of anti-features which made security difficult in the past. A lot of those issues have been worked on. As somebody who was up to my eyeballs in PHP for years during the bad old days, I’m now confident installing big PHP apps if I think the dev team and dev process are reasonably mature.

Not the above guy but I believe it’s a database.

I’m ever so slowly teaching myself Zabbix, need something full-featured because I also need monitoring for my hosting clients etc

That’s awesome :)

I started by self-hosting an autoDJ to pipe music into Second Life, later did a weekly show on a tiny internet radio station for maybe 18 months … trying to make a name in order to get a DJ spot on-air at a local community radio station that was indie/alt-rock format at the time. Sadly my life took a turn and the community station changed hands and changed formats, but it was a cool experience nonetheless!

You might also check out rathole as it is very easy to use: https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole

oh nice. somebody else who’s done internet radio!

holy crap, that was … … … … 25 years ago???

I don’t honestly remember the very first, if I had to bet I’d say it was Samba, likely on my 350MHz K6 (later snagged a K6-III+ for this board, fastest Socket 7 chip ever produced) so I could share files with my laptop, a Dell, 300MHz Celeron. Running all Linux at the time, not sure what flavors, although I first encountered a Debian derivative with Corel LinuxOS believe it or not, and have used Debian on servers about 95% of the time forever after.

My first self-hosting on dedicated hardware was a Samba share and DHCP/DNS server, since at the time routers weren’t always a thing, and in fact it was plugged directly into the cable modem … and for a while accidentally served competing DHCP to my neighborhood cable segment, causing intermittent problems for who knows how many users including myself, because the cable company didn’t filter broadcast traffic!!! When I finally found that config mishap, holy shit was it an awkward monkey moment … fix the typo and walk away slowly … wild west days!!

You can go a looong way hosting stuff on ultra-small form factor business PCs

Basically, subs with anti-corpo principles but refuses to leave corpo Reddit.

See also: Discord

same, I don’t regret my exodus but I had to make the decision to force myself to find and/or bootstrap elsewhere what I was getting from reddit

No regrets, I haven’t fully broken the habit of reading a couple subs tho

I use .lan for everything the router can resolve names for, and .local for Avahi mDNS 😈

just make sure to post some too! getting porn and/or meme communities off the ground ain’t easy without a lil help

I’m currently running 16GB zramswap on my 32GB server, and 24GB on Optane / 3D XPoint on my 64GB server 😈

Same, but I’ve never once touched Docker and am doing everything old skool on top of Proxmox. Others may or may not like this approach, but it has many of the benefits in terms of productivity (ease of experimentation, migration, upgrade etc)

Go with used & refurb business PCs right out of the gate instead of fucking around with SBCs like the Pi.

Go with “1-liter” aka Ultra Small Form Factor right away instead of starting with SFF. (I don’t have a permanent residence at the moment so this makes sense for me)

You’re absolutely right - many of them aren’t going to realize and never were. Most people just eat what they’re served.

Personally, I’ve wasted far too much of my life fucking around with such people, and I don’t want them in my social media. They can stay over there and like it.

They are simply outright incompetent and driven by standard corporate middle managers chasing the next KPI.

Recent comments from the CEO confirm it. Bloodless money-grubbing techbro shitbag.