This Week in Self-Hosted (29 November 2024)

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This Week in Self-Hosted

The initial draft of this week's newsletter had a cheeky comment about Americans celebrating Thanksgiving while also subsequently immersing themselves in the consumerism of Black Friday the following day, but I feel like those remarks have been overdone.

Instead, enjoy a brief list of deals I found for those looking to expand their setups this holiday season:

• r/DataHoarder's official Black Friday 2024 sales thread
• Unraid's Cyber Weekend Sales
• 25% Plex Pass Discount
• nzb360 30% Discount
• Cloud Storage, VPNs, and Courses

Happy selfh.st/ing!

In the News

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Review: More power, same form factor

The Raspberry Pi 5 now in a Compute Module 4 sized package

Tom's HardwareLes Pounder

Hetzner raises prices while significantly lowering bandwidth (US)

Hetzner raises prices This morning I received an email from Hetzner stating that they are raising prices in the US while significantly reducing bandwidth. The largest price percentage increase is 27.52% for CPX21 servers, and the smallest is 4.17% for CX3+ servers. Bandwidth allotments are decreasing on average, across all products, 88.19% from previous allotments. I’ve been a big fan of Hetzner. Unfortunately they’ve made a feeble attempt to dress this change up in the name of “fairness”.

Adriano Caloiaro's personal blog

Council Post: The Future Of .IO Domains: Critical Insights For Tech Leaders

In this article, I explore the potential scenarios for .io’s future, the risks for domain owners and why a solid domain strategy is crucial.

ForbesDaniel Strauss

A New Plex Experience is Coming

Get a mobile preview, and join our testing program.

Plexjerry

Software Updates

• ByteStash v1.5.0 | Code Snippets: SSO support for OIDC, public views for specified snippets, imports and exports, clickable description links
• Dawarich v0.17/8 | Location History: Immich integration for displaying photos on map, new 'Trips' feature (create, edit, and delete)
• Grist v1.3.0 | No-Code Database: Docker image now built using Debian Bookworm, updated UI for setting documents as template or tutorial
• Homepage v0.9.13 | Dashboard: New widgets – Prometheus Metric, suwayomi, ArgoCD, Spoolman, and GitLab
• HortusFox v3.8 | Plant Manager: Daylight saving time for weather features, inventory quantity management, list view sorting/filtering, plant recognition updates
• Kavita v0.8.4 | Reading Server: Rewritten scanner, people re-architecture, special keyword removal, last read filter, bulk library actions
• Lychee v6.1.0 | Photos: New timeline layout for albums, LQ image placeholder, Authentik OAuth provider support
• Manyfold v0.90.0 | Asset Manager: Redesigned site settings to accommodate enhanced site and user management
• PdfDing v0.5.0 | PDF Manager: Code migration from Codeberg to GitHub, inverted color reading mode, bulk uploads, date tooltips, upload loading spinners
• Readeck v0.16.0 | Read Later: Filters for labels, errors, and loading state, show bookmark creation date in sidebar, alignment and hyphenation reader settings
• RomM v3.6.0 | ROM Manager: Display and filter by age rating, larger file uploads, new 'Personal' tab for tracking game progress, completions, star ratings, and notes
• Stirling PDF v0.34.0 | PDF Editor: Improved PDF to CSV, multi-select drag and drop, allow same signature on multiple pages at once
• Tautulli v2.15.0 | Plex Statistics: Plex slug and watch URL notification parameters, new export fields, API metadata updates

Breaking Changes

• ImmichFrame v1.0.19.0: FontColor setting renamed to PrimaryColor
• Pocket ID v0.17.0: Unbundled GeoLite2 database now requires license key for IP address lookup
• Scratch Map v1.2.0: DBLOCATION variable renamed to DATA_DIR
• Stirling PDF v0.34.0: Users upgrading from versions older than v0.28.0 will need to upgrade to a newer version before upgrading to this release for database migrations

PSA: Breaking Changes to Porkbun DNS Plugin for SWAG | Info :: LinuxServer.io

If you use the Porkbun certbot plugin with SWAG for DNS validation you need to ensure that you have updated your SWAG container to at least version 3.0.1-ls337 before 2024-12-01, as Porkbun are making changes to their API endpoint that will cause older versions of the plugin to stop working. Specifically, they are updating their API domain root from porkbun.com to api.porkbun.com. If you are unsure which version of SWAG you are running, you can use docker inspect -f ’{{ index .

Info :: LinuxServer.io

New Software

• Bearlytics: Privacy-first, no-nonsense web analytics
• Bookmark Manager: Multi-user web app for managing bookmarks
• Conscious Cravings: Self-curated kitchen dashboard
• Eebeepeebee: Minimal self-hosted pastebin for small user bases
• Jellyplist: Replicate and sync Spotify playlists to Jellyfin
• Notifico: Omni-channel notification server
• QuickDrop: Anonymous file sharing
• Streamsphere: yt-dlp frontend and media library
• Vince: Self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics
• wDOSg: Manage and run DOS games in the browser
• xplex: Open-source multi-streaming server

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Community Content

Self-Hosting Isn’t a Solution; It’s A Patch

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How Konnected re-wrote ratgdo to secure the future of the open garage door

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Umami vs Plausible vs Matomo for Self-Hosted Analytics

Comparing Umami, Plausible, and Matomo, three popular self-hosted Google Analytics alternatives, as well as brief glances at GoatCounter, Fathom, and PostHog.

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Local = Reliable

Our smart homes control important things, and we can’t have them fall on their faces because of bad internet. We need a local-first Open Home.

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Content Spotlight: Readeck

Meet Readeck, a self-hosted read later and bookmarking platform. With Readeck, users can save and archive online articles using the application's built-in webpage parsing to capture the relevant content for later reading and reference. Features include labels, collections, highlights, video transcripts, e-book exports, and a browser extension for easily capturing articles while browsing the web.

Readeck can be installed via bare metal or Docker with the option to replace its default SQLite with PostgreSQL if desired.

Links: Website, Source Code, Documentation

What I'm Watching

• Never Lose Another Thought: Self-Host Blinko with Docker | DB Tech
• 15 Cybersecurity Terms Everyone Should Know | Shannon Morse
• Pterodactyl Is The Perfect Platform For Hosting All of Your Game Servers | Jim's Garage
• I Made My Smart Home Presence Sensors Even Better! | Everything Smart Home

Command Line Corner: which

Use the which command to easily find the location of an executable file for troubleshooting, debugging, and other use cases:

/$ which docker
  /usr/bin/docker
/$ which cat
  /usr/bin/cat

Click here to view an archive of commands shared in previous newsletters.

Related News and Content

Intel awarded almost $8 billion in bid to protect US chipmaking interests

The race to award the remaining CHIPS Act funding is on.

The Verge

Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board | TechCrunch

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again

TechCrunchRomain Dillet

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