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I wrote about my web hosting history, having home pages and running blogs plus adjacent services since 1997. Given the change on the Internet in recent years, I’m very happy to continue doing this for the foreseeable future to be a part of the non-corporative web against big tech.

michaelnordmeyer.com/my-web-ho

Michael Nordmeyer · My Web Hosting HistoryA detailed rundown creating fond feelings for me when looking back.

#AI #crawlers 🤖 🦠 brought our server down again. We stopped counting the downtime in the last half a year. In our first 4 years of #selfhosting we had cca 2 days of downtime per year, longest one we had was when the internet cable was cut near our server location.

Then the robots sniffed out our git forge and the it doesn't handle the traffic.Whole server stops until someone restarts it.We blocked whole subnets from #Microsoft,#Amazon &#Meta at the start of 2025. It did not help for a long. 😿

Okay, call me crazy (you might be right...) but I'm pretty excited about this. I'm looking at self hosting my own jellyfin chromecast receiver.

When you cast video, the actual webapp that loads inside your tv is hosted somewhere on the internet (it's not a built-in component running from your local jellyfin install) because it's gotta be internet facing and registered with Google (it's a whole thing for chromecast receivers in general.)

It's actually remarkably straightforward to setup a local instance of this receiver, it's just a nodejs app that'll need a HTTPS endpoint.

Next step is I need to register a new cast app and add it into my local jellyfin instance and I should be able to get it working in our tv... To what end, I hear you ask? I wanna get some kind of logging/monitoring set up so I can diagnose an issue I've been having the last week or so 🤣 I'm hoping to integrate OpenTelemetry 🔭

🏕️ my adventures in #selfhosting - day 128 (a bit Clueless edition) 🎬

Bonjour Fedi friends!

I'm having a really interesting week: 4 adult caretakers in a house with 3 little children... as I admitted to someone on here, self-hosting is FAR easier than being a referee in fights about LEGOs 😅

Now, whenever the cousins are busy playing in the garden, I try to do a bit of work, namely: figuring out #PeerTube from the POV of a self-hoster.

Yesterday I finally understood how I could create a user account (other than "root" - the superuser created during the PeerTube installation).

Today I'm busy trying to solve another problem: how do you tell your followers you've moved to a new instance? Because yes, PeerTube is powered by #ActivityPub, but it doesn't support the MOVE function.

I rarely posted on my MakerTube account and only have 150 subscribers, who followed me when reading about it on my blog post about PeerTube.

But I have to admit, the whole "following" thing is really convoluted on PeerTube because you can follow an entire account or specific channels. And I'm a little lost regarding how I notify my followers about the change.

If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears!

Oh and some news for you first... here is my new PeerTube home: https://videos.elenarossini.com/a/ele/video-channels

Special thanks to :YunoHost:
@yunohost
for empowering me to set up my own instance ❤️

#MySoCalledSudoLife #video

Elena Rossini on PeerTubeElena Rossini on PeerTubeItalian film director, photographer and editor on a mission to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it. In my previous (film) life I made documentaries promoting media literacy, gend...