DISCLAIMER: All the code was written by humans until December 2025. Since then, we have started using AI as an assistant, mainly to speed up debugging and for low-value-added tasks (UI and some simple logic). However, all code is reviewed by a human, and the architecture is designed exclusively by humans.

Hi everyone,

We’ve just released Portabase 1.29, with another round of improvements focused on configuration, reliability and reducing the amount of manual setup required.

Repo: https://github.com/Portabase/portabase

Quick recap if you’re new to Portabase

Portabase is an open-source, self-hosted backup and restore platform designed for data retention, disaster recovery and homogeneous database migrations. It uses a central dashboard with lightweight agents deployed close to your databases and workloads.

We currently support 9 database engines (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQLite, Redis, Valkey, Firebird SQL and Microsoft SQL Server) as well as Docker volume backups.

What’s new

You can now add new databases directly from the dashboard! Until now, databases were only declared through the agent's configuration file (databases.json). Both approaches can be used depending on how you prefer to manage your infrastructure.

Portabase now checks whether backup files are actually still available in the configured storage. If a file has been deleted, moved, or is otherwise unavailable, it is now marked as unavailable instead of being presented as a valid restore candidate.

The new version of the agent (v1.19) adds support for MongoDB SRV connections, making it easier to connect to MongoDB deployments using mongodb+srv://, including managed/cloud MongoDB environments.

What’s next

We’re now working on several areas:

• Deploying a public Portabase demo
• Improving and restructuring the documentation
• Enhancing the agent retry and resilience system
• Additional dashboard UX/UI improvements
• A database-specific options system, allowing advanced parameters to be configured for each supported engine
• Audit logs across the ecosystem for better traceability

As usual, feedback is welcome. If you find bugs, have trouble with the new dashboard-based configuration, or need database-specific options we don’t support yet, feel free to open an issue on GitHub.

Thanks!

Are mini stick PCs practical to set up as a media player, eg with jellyfin? Some advantages are the small form factor that plugs straight into the HDMI port, and flexibility/privacy vs using a dongle from a shitty company like amazon/google/roku.

Are there any things to watch out for to ensure it has enough compute power and hardware decoding? I just want it to play HD video with a jellyfin app/browser page.

I'm assuming it's no big deal to install Linux on (x86 hardware?), do you need to watch out for specific device support? Thanks

Continuwuity, the Matrix homeserver with an incredible name, has gotten a new version!

The highlight of this release is a brand new way to track remote server health, in order to recover faster from federation issues. Previously, an unreachable remote triggers a very naive retry loop with increasing timeouts (i.e. sender backoff), which by itself can present cascading problems.

Now, such a loop can be reset when the remote is detected back online (e.g. when they send something new), and any retry attempts also redo the server destination discovery instead of using potentially stale cache values. The result is better, more reliable federation recoveries, especially towards servers with dynamic IP addresses rotation.

Experimental support for Sticky Events has also been added behind an opt-in toggle. These special event types allow for efficient, ephemeral user states that can expire later, such as someone's participantship in a video call. Alongside the drafts for Delayed Events and embedded Livekit token service, it is one of the building blocks to support calling in the MatrixRTC 2.0 era.

Futhermore, various bugfixes to OAuth2-based logins, client-server syncing, and room state resolution allows for a smoother, more correct experience. The docs have also been updated in some aspect. Finally, the new version also contains a security fix in store, so please update after checking the changelogs accordingly.

Still reeling in from the June update where a third of the codebase was refactored, the homeserver's development remain steadfast as ever, despite any recent downtimes on the git forges or community rooms. The maintainer team yet again delivered with speed and excellence, so Continuwuity can be a Matrix server you can run!

I read today about VyOS and I really like the idea and approach but I am not sure how it compares to Opnsense in terms of performance and features. I know it doesn't have a GUI, which is a bit of a bummer for me.

I have purchased a mini router PC and I was thinking to build a dedicated router and firewall on it. I also have another PC that I am planning to run as a Proxmox host and install a couple of VMs and LXC containers, as well as Home Assistant along with Omada, as I am thinking of purchasing some TP-Link AP compatible with Omada.

But would love to hear some feedback from people who used both what they think.

Keep in mind that although I am technical and have a fair understanding of networking and VLANs I am not exactly an expert in networking. Does it make sense to go into the VyOS route in that case?

The end goal is to have a dedicated network and routing for the IoT network, dedicated Wireguard, guest WiFi, etc.

This questions goes to the immich-wise people around here.

I have just some pics from my wife's google phoots that I want to import on our immich account. What's the best way to bring it with the correct metadata? Just save locally onthe desktop than import into immich?

another doubt is how adequately import old scanned photos on immich. I have scanne some thru an self-loader scanner. they are somewhat bent, in the wrong direction and need cropping and other minor adjusts. Would be better to make this on the desktop with some tool and than import to immich OR import everything in the way they are and then edit them inside immich?

Wireguard is blocked in my country, so I no longer can use Tailscale or other Wireguard-based solutions. My home server is behind a NAT. What other ways of secure private connection can I use?

Floppy seems cool. I am curious about how/why people use these types of tracking services for their media.

didn't see it mentioned here, so a brief YSK.

stefano marinelli is working on #littleFedi, a self-hosted, single-binary activitypub/fediverse peer that hosts a mastodon-like instance with, in my mind, three killer features.

one, the thing can run on your premises completely, no need for paying for a VPS, domain name, nothing, bypasses NAT/CGNAT, encrypted comms to other instances by way of lighthouses that do the initial intros.

dos, the thing runs on something as light as a Pi zero 2W, with a miniscule memory footprint and immense CPU optimizations due to running on the weakest hardware there is (also running off SD storage).

finally, a blog-like view of your long-format tweets/toots/posts, naturally with replies appearing as comments.

original post introing the thing: https://littleone.littlefedi.social/@stefano/4252ae6f-b949-42f8-a021-fd2b698f8b37

no code available atm (coming soon) same goes for binaries. the first instance is at https://littleone.littlefedi.social/ if you want an invite code to check things out (the settings page's got a lot of cool stuff), hit up stefano.

I am beyond stoked, this clears the two biggest hurdles for selfhosting your shit - the VPS/domain expense and hassle, and the hardware requirements for running it.

edit: missed that the website is up, explaining everything way better: https://littlefedi.org/

So...I was wondering. Is there any backup tape system that would be advisable to use for backing up some TBs? I guess I need it to be USB, as the server is a micro PC, one of those tiny ones you can hang from behind a monitor. It's an HP ProDesk.

Thanks!

tl;dr- my favorite container is the firefox browser. My work browser is seriously locked down, so I just go to my Homer page and click firefox and a firefox instance opens inside my edgelord browser with all my bookmarks and extensions. It's a simple thing, but easily the service I use more than any other.(compose pasted at bottom)

Anyway, I started with docker desktop on winblows 11. I learned the ropes and then when docker desktop inshittified in an update, I switched to Rancher. All my services are picked up on their local ports by nginx-proxy-manager and then sent through a cloudflared tunnel to the domain I bought, with a customized homer page and strict access controls. Because the VM on windows was running my poor little refurbished Thinkstation too hard, I recently deleted winblows (such a good feeling) and moved over to a headless Debian server, which I run through SSH on my refurbished thinkcenter. 97% usage down to 13% (seriously). I'm only in this computer game for about $500 total and I have more than a few TBs of storage (used SAS drives were really cheap a little while ago and the hardware/learning curve is worth it). If you don't game, old stuff works just fine for pennies on the dollar (I have unplugged backups of all my really important stuff).

I use AI for the CLI stuff I down have memorized. Linux is still frustrating- File ownership is foreign and super irritating to me, being my most recent source of frustration. My Filebrowser instance broke itself and I haven't gotten it back, and of the 30 times I've tried to get Nextcloud to work, I've been successful zero times.

Anyway, it has been hours of my life arguably wasted but it has been fun and educational, and I get to give the finger to big data for the most part. I don't like the cloudflared thing, but free is hard to beat and unless I start torrenting again, I really don't need or want to pay for a VPS. I search this forum and others for new containers to spin up. I marvel at other folks' setups and the money they have spent. I'm a rusty and recycled guy, not a new and shiny guy, but man some of this custom-built, laser-cut, 3d printed stuff is cool.

I just wanted to share my experience and hopefully encourage anyone who is just starting or is on the fence.

firefox: image: jlesage/firefox container_name: firefox ports: - "5808:5800" environment: - TZ=America/Chicago - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 #- VNC_PASSWORD=${VNC_PASSWORD} - DARK_MODE=1 - WEB_AUDIO=1 - WEB_FILE_MANAGER=1 - WEB_FILE_MANAGER_ALLOWED_PATHS=ALL - WEB_HOST_CLIPBOARD_SYNC=1 volumes: - ./firefox/config:/config:rw - /SWAP:/downloads shm_size: "2gb" restart: unless-stopped networks: - web

DISCLAIMER: This is pretty much 100% AI generated. The project is kept really simple. Before you downvote, make me a generic webui for printers. 😉

I made this project to fill a need I had. I am not collecting internet points here, I don't care if you don't like it.

I found Akronae's repo laying half broken on github, made it work, and thought it was a simple enough project that it could have a rewrite (it needed). I can not participate in Github so here you go, full new repo on an unreliable self-hosted forgejo instance. If you are interested, take it before my hardware fails again. :)

What is it?

It's a web UI to upload documents and print them. I wanted that to print from any device in my home with zero config on device (think guests, family...). It pairs very nicely with scanserv.js.

It looks like this:

Remarks are welcome, but I do not guarantee maintenance. As we have seen the trend of AI projects not being maintained in time, I don't expect this project to escape that fate.

And now an attempt to tag: @Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu

Edit: added one screenshot here and 2 other to the repo/readme and added the license GNU AGPLv3.

Edit2, 20260822: After many headaches, I started hosting also a registry (that thing needed to host container images ready to be pulled) and made prebuilt images for amd64/arm64 and started a proper release. You are welcome. Professional stuff, I tell you 😂.

Edit3: Do NOT expose to the internet as of v1.0.0, critical security fixes incoming.

My payment processor just terminated my account and i am reminded once again too self host literally everything.

I already have a self hosted crypto rail but for many people that is not an option, bank transfer is quite easy to do with just checking against my bank's API, but remembering from the data before i got terminated it was around 40% transfer, 40% ideal, 20% card.

Is there anyway to self host those other payment ways outside transfer?

Does anyone have experience with this?

If you do thank you very much!

So, I've got a homelab thing going, with NextCloud and Immich and other things... using Docker. But the one thing I can't seem to wrap my head around is how to get my calendar needs met behind the scenes. I'm hoping there's some sort of calendar syncing server I can use.

The problem: I use NextCloud and another android app to use my calendar. Easy. Historically, my household has used a single Google Calendar shared amongst members.

The real problem: They won't ditch Google. But I need a solution so that I can:

1. Sync their calendar events to my NextCloud calendar.
2. Sync my calendar events to their Google Calendar. I think that the issue here is, the share links that the calendars give, can only be used to list a new separate calendar on each of the respective platforms - not sync the events between the existing calendars...

I'm hoping that there's maybe a syncing solution out there that can play middle man and sync the two calendars directly, rather than having separate calendars for the two environments?

...and this is why

1. pihole ain't enough
2. you dont buy skeezy shit off aliexpress
3. if your pirate box isn't self hosted, it's a prostitute :P

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Honestly.... I'm kind of impressed at the level of fuckery that vSeeBox goes into. This is not just a random crypto mining bot... someone with real skills went to a fair bit of trouble to obfuscate things.

Impressive. Most impressive.

PS: don't buy vSeeBox - or do, with eyes wide open.

This website made me reconsider if 99.9999% SLA and always online is really that important for lots of websites. I used to self-host my own server in my own apartment, but gave up on that after my internet provider had their first major outage that lasted almost a week. Also I didn't want to worry about the fire hazard, or the server going down when I was traveling etc.

But a solar powered server seems interesting, if the batteries could be made fire safe.

I have a headless raspberry PI 4 8GB connected to my TV setup with Kodi and the Jellyfin add-on. Now I would like to have a convenient option to watch Youtube in a privacy-friendly way on the TV.

The experience should be similar to Freetube: creating playlists, search videos, follow subscribed channels. I don't mind running it either directly on the PI or install it on my server.

Thanks for any recommendations of what you folks use!

The mouse did not survive interrogation.

Also mouse not pictured.

I've been setting up my first nas and set up DNS routing from my router to adguard home, which then routes traffic to nginx-proxy-manager, which then routes to the docker container for the intended service. I've spent days pulling my hair out, trying to figure out what the issue was - why all my services behind NPM were periodically unreachable on my browser. after a wifi reset on my laptop they'd come back online, but why? today I found out that although my router correctly had the DHCP setting correctly set up to route IPv4 traffic to adguard, there was a separate section in the router settings that handles IPv6 settings, and that this was set up to look for my ISP's assigned DNS provider. Just posting on the off chance anyone finds this helpful or entertaining. I am extremely tired (I have a 3 month old baby) so please bare with the poor formatting of the post!

I run a quite large vps. now and i want to monitor it ive been using beszel an uptime kuma, does anyone know a better solution ive tried grafana an prometheous. but it was not as good as i was hoping. i saw netdata on selfh.st does anyone have expierance with that.

I got into self hosting almost a year ago. Since then, I bought (low) hundreds of dollars worth of hardware, but I've never used any of my services outside of testing. My server is left unused since may (I think).

Now I've found a use for my server, but my HDD, (which I bought for a good price ($150 for HC530 14TB, 10k POH) for european standards in last November) isn't really being used. To be frank, I never really used it, I don't need a NAS, I always preferred (pirated) streaming services over local streaming, so I mostly had it just to have it.

I kinda know what I can do with it. I could set up a proxmox backups on it or run a nix cache (I run NixOS on my desktop PCs, I would be using the cache, but it would be annoying to set up and cachix free tier is enough for now).

I'm also anxious to use it, because I'm scared to wear it down, but, at the same time, I know that it will degrade if I don't use it. I might want to sell it, but my previous sales on online marketplaces were abysmal and I know I might regret it if I change my mind and decide I need so much storage.

What would you suggest? If I want to keep it, how should I treat it?

Wanted to share a quick blog post (see link) playing around with a couple methods of validating data origin and integrity without blindly relying on public CAs.

It's sort of a follow-up-to-a-follow-up on an earlier post about using Cloudlfare proxies to selfhost personal sites or services, but it really applies more to TLS and public CAs in general.

I think it would be nice if my guests could easily print and scan when they are visiting.

Printing should be relatively easy nowadays with the printer on the same network. Scanning is another story. I found this nice project which works very nicely.

However, I would love to have the same but for printing, that way I would not have to do device specific troubleshooting/helping when trying to print something from guests' devices.

There is this project, which has a screenshot of what seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but the issues are unanswered, there is no release, the building of the project is lacking.

Dockerfiles are incomplete, they are lacking copy yarn.lock and api lacks db initialization. The ports seem to be hardcoded. And once built, it doesn't work or at least I didn't manage yet. I got the frontend finally up but can't login. My knowledge is very limited so I'm checking with you if there is anything similar in the landscape or anyone willing to help on that project. Unfortunately I am locked out of github.

CUPS didn't work for me as I can't see an upload option on the web UI.

edit: So I spent time on tweaking the akronae repo, and after a few corrections, adding CUPS and improvements, I managed to get something functional. If I have more time I might publish it. It's fully vibe coded though 'cause I couldn't be arsed learning TypeScript and shit, and the original repo has plenty of outdated dependencies which, same, I won't update because I don't have the skills.

Hello guys so I installed jellyfin on termux. It ran fine few hours ago. I turned it off and got running few times. Now when I'm trying to start jellyfin I'm getting this error

You must install .NET to run this application.
App: /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/lib/jellyfin/jellyfin
Architecture: arm64 App host version: 9.0.18
.NET location: Not found
Learn more:
https://aka.ms/dotnet/app-launch-failed
Download the .NET runtime:
https://aka.ms/dotnet-core-applaunch?missing_runtime=true&arch=arm64&rid=linux-bionic-arm64&os=linux-bionic&apphost_version=9.0.18
Failed to resolve libhostfxr.so [not found]. Error code: 0x80008083
Any suggestion to fix it ?