I recently discovered yunohost, a French project for easy selfhosting. Does anyone have experience with that?

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    13 hours ago

    I did some testing with it, because I believe more people should be able to self-host.

    I like how it is implemented. It has good support for email. Many apps support SSO.

    The critical part to me is how up-to-date applications are. I started a small project to automate version tracking, check out:

    https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/app/nextcloud.html

    ; so for example, the YunoHost Nextcloud app does not lag much behind upstream. My intention with this is to let people see that they have been updating Nextcloud dilligently for two years; they might pull the plug tomorrow, but it’s a good track record.

    (I’d like to add scrapers to other projects similar to YunoHost. My ultimate goal would be to be able to choose a list of apps you’d like to self-host, and see which projects like YunoHost carry the applications you want, and compare how they track updates.)

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    17 hours ago

    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 migrate 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, makes self-hosting accessible to everyone, and helps democratize the Internet a bit 💚 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 (Docker/kubernetes high availability, reverse proxies, etc) and have everyone else to need to resort to using centralized services

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    15 hours ago

    Used for years, then moved into docker containers.

    It’s pretty rad, especially as a domain controller.

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    17 hours ago

    I’ve used it when I started out and it’s good, I can recommend it if you just want something where you can hit install and it works. I just use docker containers now though because I have more experience and it allows to set everything up exactly how I want.

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      16 hours ago

      Same process here, started with yunojost and now using docker directly. Still Yunohost got me into self-hosting when I didn’t know anything about it, definitely recommended for starting out.

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    not myself, but my stepdad tried it with 2 decades of IT and linux sysadmin experience.

    basically, it is great if you want to host like 2 or 3 standalone services on a pi to get into understanding how the basics of selfhosting work, but for homelabs and deep customization, you’re better off with docker compose on debian/ubuntu server.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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    13 hours ago

    Nice as a starting point, but not enough features to make it worth it for advanced setups.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    17 hours ago

    Looks good. But I got burnt with CasaOS. Only App organizer I still use is dockge.

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      17 hours ago

      +1 for dockge. But that’s something for later. Yunohost is a great way to get a feeling for selfhosting.

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        15 hours ago

        Burnt my fingers. It’s not enough freedom for changing compose settings. But that’s just my two cents.

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          12 hours ago

          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.