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I just recently started playing around with an old pc as my homeserver and am curious of any recommendations for lesser known self hostable foss software that you would recommend

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (7 children)

From the things I use:

Uptime Kuna, for monitoring the availability of websites/services
Gitea, for hosting code
PicoShare, for sharing files
Maddy, for email

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How has your experience hosting your own email been? I often hear that the big providers (Google, Microsoft, etc.) will simply drop your sent mails.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I set up my own email on a bsd.amterdam VPS and have had no problems whatsoever. No one drops my mail. I don't know what slash_nick is talking about regarding maintenance. The only maintenance I have is rotating Let's Encrypt SSL certificates, and that's only because I haven't automated it yet. Domi has good points that can be summarized as "actually do it right". I got my setup working in about 100 lines of config. Granted, that's OpenBSD rather than Linux, which is significantly more terse, but it's still not hard and I wish more people would realize that.

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