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  • I submitted a response but if i may give some feedback, the second portion brings up:

    I am willing to pay a substantial amount for hardware required for self-hosting.

    This seemed out of place because there were no other value related questions (iirc). Such as:

    • I believe self hosting saves me money in the short term
    • i believe self hosting saves me money in the long run

    I’m sure you could also think of more. But i think it’s pretty important because between cloud service providers and any non-free apps you want to use, it can be quite costly compared to the cost of some hardware and time it takes to set things up.

    The rest of my responses don’t change but if you’re wanting to understand the impact of money in all of this, i think some more questions are needed

    Best of luck!




  • Foundry was the 2nd thing i started self hosting (the first being pihole). Have had it running for 5 years now.

    Other than that i only recently started expanding my self hosting:

    • tandoor recipes
    • navidrome (for music, mentioning it since it isn’t the typical media server recommendation)
    • personal knowledge management (pkm) static website that i build with hugo
    • umami analytics
    • Remark42 for comment system on one of my internal static websites
    • a few smaller things that i built. One is a discord bot from before i started hating discord, and then a few web apps that i haven’t open sourced yet


  • I’m not familiar with the reddit filtering but have you tried using cloudflare page rules? You can try capturing everything after the .tld and then forward it to a lemmy server. So for instance somedomain.tld/12345 could forward to lemmy.world/post/12345. If reddit is checking links for 301 redirects to lemmy though then that wouldn’t work.

    A more advanced approach would be to use a cloudflare worker to do a proxy response so the status code is returned as 200 OK instead of 301 redirect. I haven’t tried that but i think that would be much harder for them to block and you could always make more elaborate urls to make it harder to find obvious lemmy-like structure




  • Depends on the programs, but likely statistics if it is a halfway decent program.

    • Statistics is harder to learn on your own than the CS needed for data science. So it’s better to go statistics and then you can learn the CS parts on your own before doing a data science program.
    • There’s generally a bigger need for statistical foundation than CS foundation in data science, or at least with the angle for any data science needed for data journalism.










  • This is something that doesn’t really need to be self hosted unless you’re wanting the experience. You just need:

    1. Static website builder. I use hugo but there’s a few others like jekyll, astro
    2. Use a git forge (github, gitlab, codeberg).
    3. Use your forges Pages feature, there’s also cloudflare pages. Stay away from netlify imo. Each of these you can set up to use your own domain

    So for my website i just write new content, push to my forge, and then a pipeline builds and releases the update on my website.

    Where self hosting comes into play is that it could make some things with static websites easier, like some comment systems, contact forms, etc. But you can still do all of this without self hosting. Comments can be handled through git issues (utteranc.es) and for a contact form i use ‘hero tofu’ free tier. In the end i don’t have to worry about opening access to my ports and can still have a static website with a contact form. All for free outside of cost of domain.


  • Im not familiar with doku wiki but here’s a few thoughts

    • privacy policy is good to have regardless of what you do with rest of my comments
    • your site is creating a cookie “dokuwiki” for user tracking.
    • cookie is created regardless of user agreement, rather than waiting for acceptance (implied or explicit agreement). As in i visit the page, i click nothing and i already have the dokuwiki cookie.
    • i like umami analytics for a cookieless google analytics alternative. They have a generous free cloud option for hobby users and umami is also self hostable. Then you can get rid of any banner.