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I recently discovered yunohost, a French project for easy selfhosting. Does anyone have experience with that?
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Des, it has, what most others lack: Single Sign In and many Apps.
Looks good. But I got burnt with CasaOS. Only App organizer I still use is dockge.
+1 for dockge. But that’s something for later. Yunohost is a great way to get a feeling for selfhosting.
what do you meant with burnt? i thought its even easier than yunohost?
Burnt my fingers. It’s not enough freedom for changing compose settings. But that’s just my two cents.
thats true. when I tried it I even found it more difficult because of the limite. you must trust the scripts and if something does not work its a lot more complicated than setting it up by yourself.
Elena Rossini, well known for her help in growing the Fediverse, raves about Yunohost, https://news.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/. You should be fine using it.
If I host a website on Yunohost can I push the files from Codeberg to it using git?
It can be done using Forgejo Actions. I did something like that with Github Actions. I host static website on my Yunohost server using app named
my_webappand I wrote Github Action Workflow that deploys it intomy_webappdirectoryI think this is not possible to configure just with yunohosting standard tools. My guess would be you would not need yunohost to do so. I have a blog made with a static site generator and I just push the whole output to a directory under /var/www. Plus there is an nginx running as Webserver and to redirect traffic to subdomains.
I thought that I would need Yunohost to take care of all the web hosting stuff in the back ground…? Are you saying to just push files into the VPS barebones, or into Yunohosts website app shell? (Sorry I’m new to VPS stuff).
And how would you push the files from Codeberg? what is the method?
A minimal setup would be:
- your VPS with an installed operating system like Debian 12 or Ubuntu 24(?).
- a Webserver, which accepts http(s) requests from a browser.
You configure your VPS to be able to access it via ssh, login, install a Webserver like nginx, Apache or others, configure the server to point requests to your IP or domain to a local directory on your server (e.g. /var/www/yoursite on Linux), write some hello world html file, copy that file via scp to /var/www/yoursite, voilá – you just created a (very simple) website.
If you want a little more bling bling you could use a static site generator. See https://jamstack.org/generators/
With a SSG you would initialize your site on your local machine, write some markdown and put in in your site generators folder structure and run the command to create the html files from the markdown. The output is normally a specific folder you could then copy to your server, as mentioned above. Or you could set up git on your server and use git commit and git push to push changes to your server. This is what you had in mind.
I find it easier to just use a graphical client software like Cyberduck to drag and drop the whole static site generator output to my server.
Been using it for 10+ years. Love it.
yunotryityourself?
Use it everyday. I self host a number of fedi services. It’s a great os.
Most of the apps are great, but there are a couple that are no longer maintained.
I was searching for something like this! Seems really promising, I’ll check it, thanks!
I had the same experience as many here. Great place to start out and if you don’t need or want more control then it’s perfect. I ended up on unraid and mostly use docker for apps.
For my vps i use yunohost and for selfhosting from Synology to unraid now. Yunohost is very time saving with subdomain and security Management.
Nice as a starting point, but not enough features to make it worth it for advanced setups.
What do you miss?
Coincidentally, there’s this post today about Yunohost: https://my-place.social/display/db471d1f-c06c03be288f78d7-ad573aef
Yes, it’s pretty good! I’m a DevOps engineer, and have experience with Ansible, Docker, etc, but I just couldn’t find time to deploy services the best way that I wanted™ for my personal server
So, even though it e.g. doesn’t even use Docker, yunohost really helped me start using the many services I wanted/needed, which otherwise might take e.g. a few hours to a couple of days for each of them to research and configure
So I have one “production” yunohost server, one “testing” yunohost server to test services that I don’t know if I’ll use yet (and I wouldn’t want them to interfere with production e.g. by using too many resources)
and one server without yunohost for mailu, Docker, traefik, etc, which I can use to deploy services the correct way™ as I figure out the services that I really use and find the time to deploy them one-by-one
Even when using yunohost, there are so many things to do after deploying a service (e.g. DNS, configure the server and client software), so it has been really useful to save time when deploying and configuring.
I think it gets you ~80% there, helps democratize the Internet a bit, and make self-hosting accessible to everyone 💚 It’s more important to have many people setting up e.g. Immich or Nextcloud for their family photos, than only a few Linux people being able to learn how to do it perfectly and everyone else to have to resort to using centralized services
I think time efficiency and stability are the two traits I am looking for. Looks like yunohost can offer those.
Used for years, then moved into docker containers.
It’s pretty rad, especially as a domain controller.
Elena Rossini (@[email protected]) is a journalist who’s gotten into the fediverse and self hosting with Yuno Host. She’s documented it on her blog. It’s worked out really well for her.
And they just boosted https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@yunohost/114431095460107487
