Posts tagged self-hosting
Self-hosting movies
- 14 April 2026
I started hosting video streaming over a year ago. I’m using Jellyfin media server.
It’s straightforward to install it using yunohost.
One of the big advantages of using yunohost is simiplified user management across apps/services: you create user accounts in yunohost once and those accounts are used by apps supporting LDAP.
Self-hosting music
- 11 April 2026
Recently I decided to ditch music streaming. A few years back a migrated from Spotify to Tidal. I was mostly motivated by superior quality of the latter, ethical concerns regarding the former (ie paying 200M to Joe Rogan) and realising how little music streaming giants pay the artists.
I was happy with Tidal most of the time. It allowed me to discover plenty of interesting artists. But over last 4 years, I felt more and more like music consumer. And while Tidal shares more of its profit with the artists than Spotify, realising how little the musicians make from my streaming made me feel uncomfortable.
So I decided to ditch commercial music streaming by:
Self-hosting: domain and DNS zone
- 09 February 2025
Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:
internet connection with public IP
router allowing port forwarding
Self-hosting: server hardware
- 01 February 2025
Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:
internet connection with public IP
router allowing port forwarding
Self-hosting: starting an adventure
- 31 January 2025
Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:
internet connection with public IP
router allowing port forwarding
Let’s begin the privacy quest
- 27 January 2025
I’ve been thinking about privacy-related topics for several years now. But it never was a priority.
My approach started to shift lately…
Over the years I’ve been experimenting a lot with alternative apps/services and self-hosting. Recently, I got determined enough to get rid of the last privacy-intrusive apps/services. It ain’t easy, but it’s possible!
Hello world!
- 01 April 2024
Welcome to my new blog! I’ll gradually describe all my adventures with self-hosting of various services, including blog/website, files and photos.
I started my website/blog in 2014. It was served using wordpress that was set up on virtual machine (VM) in google cloud.
I felt for a long time that running a dedicated VM for a blog is an overkill. There was huge overhead in maintaining both, the VM (regular system updates and backups) as well as wordpress itself (updates and database backups).