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slcl v0.4.0 release — I am happy to announce the v0.4.0 release for slcl! For those of you know do not know about slcl, think about it as Nextcloud, but without the bloat or JavaScript. slcl is written in C and requires 400 KiB of RAM (yes, KiB!) to run on a Linux server. Needless to say, it works lighting fast on older hardware, including SBCs. This new release brings several new features: thumbnails, directory downloads and security fixes. Static binaries for Linux are also available for...
💬 8 comments · 7 likes · Oct 10 · 3 days ago
Truly free DDNS — Unfortunately, I signed up with noip.com without reading the fine print. Yes, it is free, __BUT__ you have to confirm every month. That sounds not hard, but there is a small window during which you must confirm, like one week towards the end of the month. There is no way I am going to keep this up with my ADHD. Also there are many times that I am offline for a week. I was looking at other places which do not limit you like that, and so far a couple look promising:...
💬 13 comments · Sep 24 · 3 weeks ago
Plans for self hosting my personal website — So after some thinking to myself, I'm now planning on using Filazilla instead of Docker, since I want to be able to host my personal website and my Gemini capsule without any issues, and I'm using Windows 11 so that's another reason why, and I'll just use noip for DNS stuff, or I can code something for DNS, I'm not sure. I'll also use pollux.casa to host my Gemini capsule as well. And I'll only use Filezilla's server end stuff, since I don't think I...
💬 View post · Aug 31 · 6 weeks ago
Free hosting providers? — Are there any services out there that offer a free-tier hosting option? looking for a VPS besides from Amazon. ideally something less corporate and more "cyberpunk" with XMR payments, though that's not necessary. if the topic isn't apporpiate it's only because I couldn't find a more suiting forum.
💬 7 comments · 1 like · Aug 15 · 2 months ago
— 8by3.net/~sbr/others/tech/2025-07-29.audio-book-shelf.gmi
Its not gemini but audio bookshelf is pretty cool. Just setup an instance inside a freebsd jail
💬 1 like · Jul 29 · 3 months ago
Here are a few links about dealing with the recent influx of server-killing bots attacking just about everything.
💬 1 like · Jul 25 · 3 months ago
Does MyBB support gemini? any forum software recommendations? I'm looking for a ready-made forum software like MyBB that has compatibility with Gopher/gemini
💬 2 comments · Jul 16 · 3 months ago
What is the current state of home hosting? — I've been running a VPS for about 20 years now. The internet situation at home has been pretty crappy for most of that time so I never really ran a setup at home. A few Pis running some services and that is all. Now that I have xfinity's gig fiber with unlimited bandwidth for the next 6 years, I'm wondering what the current state of self hosting at home is. Way back when if you had the ports for Postfix open you'd get a call from your ISP saying...
💬 11 comments · 1 like · Jul 15 · 3 months ago
I have a little 12GB / 192MB RAM VPS that I pay $15/yr for (yes, once a year haha). It mostly runs a Telegram MTProto proxy. I was thinking about starting up a tinylog though - what's the easiest tinylog service that could run a HTTPS and Gemini page?
💬 2 comments · Jun 28 · 4 months ago
Not quite sure how to react to this... I guess I feel seen, even through a reverse proxy and several layers of obfuscation. [https link]
💬 3 comments · 1 like · May 18 · 5 months ago
Distributed storage for self-hosting — I host a few services that need file storage: Gitea, PeerTube, Dovecot. Now I want to scale them. Not because it's really needed, just out of curiosity. What is right solution for distributed storage? I see a lot of them, for example: CephFS, GlusterFS, Tahoe-LAFS. Which one is the best for my needs? It must be performant, so I think that FS over object storage is not very suitable because of difficulties with parallel access, maybe, IDK.
💬 2 comments · 2024-09-20 · 1 year ago
We really should host our own email servers on VPSes — I got an email reply from someone who discovered my email 10 days after sending in his spam folder. I'm not sure why - maybe he hosts his domain at Outlook.com or Gmail and it's difficult to build up reputation for these A-holes. Or it may be because my VPS provider is on the UCEPROTECT-L3 blocklist (again). But I really like plaintext email despite all of it's problems. So I think the smolnet/IndieWeb community members should run their own...
💬 42 comments · 4 likes · 2024-08-28 · 1 year ago
Using an Android tablet as a web server? — I have a Lenovo K-10 tablet lying around and I wondered whether it is possible to use it to serve a website / onionsite. If this is possible, what is the best way to achieve so?
💬 3 comments · 2024-06-18 · 1 year ago · #android #web-server
UNIX way/KISS monitoring and alerting What do you use to monitor multiple machines/servers/services/etc? I am interested in the most simple, flexible, and robust approach to monitoring/alerting. What kind of software, approaches, etc. Systems like Nagios/Icinga and Zabbix seem to me very overloaded and are one big point of failure. I know about Monit, Munin, RRDTools. But are there any even simplest options? It is possible even without external dependencies, i.e. databases, or even without...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2024-04-21 · 1 year ago
slcl 0.2.1 release — I have just released slcl v0.2.1, a bugfix release for a minimalist web file server written in C for Unix-like systems. It is strongly recommended that existing instances update to the newer version when possible. If you have never heard about this project before, it aims to provide similar features to Nextcloud's "Files" webapp, but using ~100x less resources. It has almost no dependencies and relies on libweb, a HTTP web...
💬 24 comments · 4 likes · 2024-02-23 · 2 years ago
slcl 0.2.0 release — I have just released slcl v0.2.0, a minimalist web file server written in C for Unix-like systems: [https link] slcl v0.2.0 release If you have never heard about this project before, it aims to provide similar features to Nextcloud's "Files" webapp, but using ~100x less resources. It has almost no dependencies and relies on libweb, a HTTP web server library written from scratch in C. Static Linux binaries for x86 and x86_64 are already available, and aarch64 and armv7...
💬 3 comments · 3 likes · 2024-02-12 · 2 years ago
Bulletin boards on the web — I’ve been tasked with setting up and administering a private bulletin board service for the alumni of a wilderness school I am part of. I could see this being used by anywhere from 50 to 500 people. I would just use an instance of Bubble if it were not for the fact that Gemini is not particularly accessible to the average user. What simple self hosted options for the web would you recommend? Minimalism is key. I don’t want setting it up to be a nightmare, and I don’...
💬 8 comments · 2 likes · 2023-12-31 · 2 years ago
phone-hosted gemini/gopher server? I found this interesting software for android and saw that the ports that could be used aren't in the gopher range. Has anyone tried to set up a server on their phone for gopher or gemini?
💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2023-11-01 · 2 years ago
Pi over WiFi as a server? — Hi! I'm not super tech savvy, yet I'd like to try self-hosting my own Gemini capsule on my own Respberry Pi Zero 2 W in the near future... But both of my internet connections are wireless. My home doesn't have a land line, so I only have my mobile phone service with limited data, and the WiFi connection that my neighbour kindly shares with me... We also share meals and he stores his work stuff in my garage. So no, I'm not stealing his internet, hehe... My question...
💬 14 comments · 2023-10-29 · 2 years ago
Setting up myTinyTodo on my VPS — Introduction I enjoy making TODO-lists quite a lot. They've been a helpful way for me to collect my thoughts and manage my time. Lately I've been working on a gemini client app that's been getting steadily more complex (as these things often do). The project has gotten to the point that each time I step away from it I find myself struggling to pick up where I last left off. Yesterday I came to the conclusion that if I want to continue working on this...
💬 View post · 2023-09-24 · 2 years ago
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