There are definitely benefits on running a server at home but you could say the same of a VPS. As long as you control it, it is self hosted in my book.

@[email protected] I would say in retrospective, email, but it is too late now.

While I do have self hosted backups, I also have offsite, paid copies as well, not sure if that can be considered "self hosting" though.

@[email protected] YMMV. 90% of the people I’ve met who have gone to BM are jerks 🤷‍♂️

@[email protected] yeah if you want to host something like Lenny you may be able to do it on a home server but in terms of ports blocked, security, etc I guess it is easier to run it in a VPS

@[email protected] I don't know in Ohio, but I've heard® that when there is too little water or maybe too hot, trees start turning leaves red (maybe because it is an indicator for them that they are at the end of summer and fall is coming?)

@[email protected] not sure what that means but I guess you can do certain thing in your home server not allowed on a VPS. OTOH, an email server at home for example is much more difficult to achieve because your ISP most likely won’t allow you to open port 25

@[email protected] Ubuntu? What happens if you manually change resolv to the up of your pinhole? I remember Ubuntu has this silly resolvconfd that makes everything more confusing

@[email protected] Ubuntu? What happens if you manually change resolv to the up of your pinhole? I remember Ubuntu has this silly resolvconfd that makes everything more confusing

@[email protected] @[email protected] which server is configured in your machine (/etc/resolv.conf in linux, or in system preference in Mac). My first guess would be to check what is your computer using as a DNS ip

@[email protected] thanks! I found pt lawn seed and I bought from them already :-)

@[email protected] idk about ansible but if you are starting I would recommend starting small, in your personal computer. Docker is a good way to start

@[email protected] tbh I started hosting my email when I was young, I wanted to learn and had no major responsibilities. I think you learn a lot in terms of UNIX processes, networking, specific details about email like DKIM, etc. but at this moment I would not start doing it by myself.

Still every now and then something breaks and it is kind of painful to review things. Additionally, sometimes your emails are considered spam.

@[email protected] thanks!

@[email protected] So what I suspect happens is that you have your pihole server running, but your computer is not using it and instead is querying 1.1.1.1 or other default DNS server.

So what I was thinking is that if that is the case, you can force your computer to use your pihole by editing /etc/resolv.conf to have your pihole's IP as a nameserver.

@[email protected] good old Ubuntu , but it runs sh instead of my own zsh, path is different etc.

I’ve had to manually edit the env variables which is a pain because I forget to update the cronjob path as well

@[email protected] what do you use now?

@[email protected] can you point me to some documentation about it?

@[email protected] seems like an overkill, why not a note app like obsidian or even a static blog like Hugo?