You can easily install most of those services on YUNOhost - in fact I have a bunch of them running on a cheap VPS. All open source. It even comes with email and XMPP out of the box. I had no hosting experience beforehand and I rarely have to touch it these days. I would want more resources if I had 10 people using the whole Nextcloud suite every day but if you wanted to go the VPS route I’m sure you could easily do it for less than €5/month/person. You can run it on your own hardware as well.

I haven’t tried it yet but Calibre Web looks like what you need. A good write-up on it here. Looks like you can enable uploads from your phone.

This is excellent software.

Yeah, as a user I’m starting to regard this as a classic developer pitfall. It’s the same with everything I guess - when you work on something for long enough your perspective and reason for doing it evolves.

If FOSS users and developers mixed more and had more time to offer everything would work and flow better: UX/UI, documentation, install scripts etc.

We are our own departments: Speak up and be more specific, users! Take a couple of steps back, developers!

So safety in numbers and resources I guess. When it comes to community plugins/extensions e.g Firefox, Ardour, GIMP etc, do you have an impression of whether developers of the main program include anything in their code to prevent abuse?

Do it! It’s madness that YUNOhost is not more well-known, considering what it does.

Check out YUNOhost - it’s pre-configured for you and designed for beginners. Mine’s been running for about three years on a VPS with no problems and I had no previous experience with self-hosting.

Definitely keep your files backed up locally though. No server is invincible.

No, I tried both in the beginning and preferred Rawtherapee’s layout. It sounds like Darktable is great too though

Ah I feel the same way about my own country sometimes too! We were mostly hiking in the Carpathians and ended up staying with a family in a village there. Another family took us out for the day to visit a monastery - lots of kindness and fun :)

Thank you!

Haha, yeah I still barely know what I’m doing with it 🙄 It’s mostly been a process of poking things and seeing what happens!

Yeah, it has been really tough… I know - finally getting on with sorting it out now and have a long and expensive list from the dentist. Wisdom teeth are a curse!

Haha! That’s really kind, thank you so much :) Hello from the UK! You live in a great country by the way - I visited a few years ago and absolutely loved it 👍

Thanks :)

I come here for respite from the cynicism and darkness and would rather not see those kinds of comments. But I don’t know about them being entirely removed in case they contain clarifications or context.

I think commenters should make more of an effort to reflect the tone of the community if they do feel the need to criticise the post and I think mods should put these kind of comments behind a filter like for nsfw posts.

It’s never OK to judge someone on their physical appearance but if he was in a police lineup and you had no idea who the corrupt politician was…

Check out YUNOhost, if you haven’t already. It’s designed to simplify self-hosting for beginners.

This is such welcome news :)

I use YUNOhost on a VPS and it came with email out of the box. Which is just as well because I had no previous experience self-hosting!

I think I had a couple of emails get marked as spam in the beginning but everything has been totally fine for the last 2/3 years.

The things a guy has to do to get some electricity around here.