Hey /r/selfhosted.

Today, we want to discuss an urgent matter that affects both the moderators and users of reddit alike. As you may or may not have heard, a recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps (Reddit is Fun, Narwhal, BaconReader, and many more), making a various features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users. Starting on July 1st, Reddit has unilaterally decided to impose exorbitant charges on third-party app developers for utilizing their API. This includes the developer for Apollo, being charged 1.7 million dollars per month for API requests.

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark in protest of this policy change. Some will return after 48 hours; others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed.

/r/selfhosted is planning on joining these subreddits in solidarity, requesting that Reddit revisit this policy change. 3rd party applications have been the lifeblood of Reddit for the past 10+ years and should be here in the future.

What can you do?

1. Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site, and comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support.
2. Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy.
3. Boycott and spread the word to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely from June 12th through the 13th- instead, maybe touch some grass, call your grandma, or go install that new app you've been dying to try.
4. Don't be a jerk. As upsetting as this may be, threats, profanity, and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable, and law-abiding as possible.

Here are some helpful links on the topic:

• The official announcement from Reddit
• An Open Letter from /r/ModCoord

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• A list of participating subreddits
• The Verge article on the subject

Additional Info for /r/selfhosted

• /r/datahoarder is orchestrating a joint effort in archiving Reddit. The irony in this is not lost on me.
  • see /u/joeyvanbeek 's comment below
  • Working with ArchiveTeam

Please, for the love of all that is Free Internet, Do not spend your cReddits on awarding this post!

The irony is not lost on me, but that is one of the ways that Reddit makes money (not always, but it is one).

If you want to spend money, spend it on an open-source project funding or support a charity that is working towards a more free internet.

I wish I had more time to go into more in-depth, granular details here. Unfortunately, the necessity for a post of this nature preceded my freedom of time to more thoroughly address this and beyond.

but y'all know what is going on, and if you don't, at least take a look at the last post where we announced we were going dark to gain some insight on what this post is relating to, if you happen to have been out of the loop for long enough time for this information to be new to you.

Subreddit To Remain Restricted

There's just too much valuable content on this subreddit to remove it permanently from view. It will, however, be locked for the foreseeable future, only allowing moderators to post. Essentially, the subreddit is being archived.

Chat about Next Steps

Since we dont' want to stop creating content, there is an active chat in our newly-created Matrix || Discord channel (Will link below) titled After the Dark, to discuss where and how this community will continue sharing content.

Much discussion has been had already in the 24 hours it's been live, and we are far from finding a solution, whatever that ends up looking like.

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/gHuGQC7sP7

Or Join the Matrix Server/Channel: https://matrix.to/#/#after-the-dark:selfhosted.chat

We are still discussing options moving forward, and will continue to do so until a good option is settled on.

So far, the options, in no particular order of preference or weight, looks something like this:

• Lemmy Instance - Selfhosted and managed by Mods
• Lemmy Instance - We joined an established one
• kbin Instance - similar options to above
• Stack Exchange Network Site - not 100% possible, and isn't exactly fully a replacement
• Old-School Forum - Functional, but...well, it's a forum...
• Discourse - Probably the best option as of yet, but still not exactly a full-fledged replacement.

Come chat. Or, look for a future update as we ultimately come to a conclusion as this month comes to a close and the API Changes ruin reddit forever.

As always,

happy (self)hosting!

Hi everyone!

I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on called Wakupator, which helps reduce unnecessary power consumption by waking up machines only when they’re needed. 🚀

What is Wakupator?

Wakupator is a lightweight, minimalist machine awakener designed to help you manage home servers or small infrastructures efficiently. Instead of having your machines running 24/7, Wakupator wakes them up automatically when there’s relevant network traffic. This helps save energy, while still keeping your services available when really neede. You save energy by sacrificing availability.

It’s a tool I built to address a specific need in my setup, and I figured others might find it useful too!

How does it work?

• Register: When your machine shuts down, it registers to Wakupator with a JSON payload, containing a list of IPs/ports from which it wants to be woken up.
• IP spoofing: Wakupator associates all requested IPs and monitors specific IP addresses and ports, so it knows exactly when traffic is arriving. When it detects traffic, it sends a Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packet to the corresponding machine to wake it up and the client is removed from Wakupator's monitoring.
• Multiple Clients: You can register several machines (clients) with Wakupator. Each client is identified by its MAC address, and you can monitor different ports for each machine.
• Energy savings: By waking up machines only when necessary!

➡️ Save energy, save the Planet! (and reduce your bills 😉)

Typical use case

For my case, I have a machine hosting services like a Minecraft server, but don't need it running 24/7, Wakupator can wake it up automatically when someone tries to connect to it.

I'm hosting Wakupator on a RaspberryPI:

Someone tries to connect to your Minecraft server -> Wakupator detects the T***** SYN connection -> The machine wakes up!

The service will be available depending on the machine's start-up speed!

How to Get Started

You can find all the setup instructions and the project itself on GitHub: [Wakupator GitHub Link](https://github.com/Gibus21250/Wakupator/)

There are pre-compiled binaries available for easy installation, or you can compile it yourself.

Feedback

If you're interested, I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to check out the project, ask questions, suggest improvements, and of course, you can report bugs directly on the GitHub page!

I’m really hoping this can help others who, like me, want to optimize their infrastructure and save energy. 🌱

Hey /r/selfhosted

The community has been split on what's next for /r/selfhosted.

For every good idea on how to replace/move/handle Reddit and its community of devoted users, there are just as many people for it as there are against it.

I had plans to put up a poll, but enough dissonance and fracturing has been clearly made apparent through just comments and what discussion has been had here and on the discord channel that there's only one way to move forward.

The Show Must Go On

The moderator team here is a team of Reddit Moderators, and that is what we will continue to be. The community was right, and we have no right as the stewards of this community to withhold its function from its users.

We tried. We really, really tried, but it's time to move on and continue our efforts.

For those of you who wish to move to other platforms, we wish you the best of luck!

As of now, the subreddit has been re-opened and will continue to remain so for the foreseeable future.

External Communities And Resources

I will link here a series of non-Reddit communities as a starting point for those wishing to leave Reddit and find new homes. We wish you all the best!

The subreddit now has an official discourse instance, thanks to a generous discord user

• https://forum.r-selfhosted.com

If you know of a community that is a good fit here, please comment and I will add it here.

• The Official Discord Server
• The Official Matrix Server
• Lemmy.ML SelfHosted Channel
• Homelab Forum - Curated by /u/caponate
• Lemmy.world Selfhosted Channel
• The Squabbles.io selfhosted community
• kbin.social selfhosted community

I am sorry, /r/selfhosted. We really, really did try.

What's up, /r/selfhosted!

Okay, elephant in the room.

The Announcement

On the 11th of November, 2020, Google announced in a blog post that they will be sunsetting the "Unlimited Photos" option for their Google Drive sync.

Key takeaways:

• Starting June 1st, new photos uploaded will now have their file size counted against the 15GB free storage limit, regardless of quality uploaded.
• Existing photos will remain uncounted all the way up until that time and beyond. To rephrase, your 1.3TB (or more, perhaps?) of existing high-quality (but not original quality) photo's will not suddenly count towards your current Google Drive limit.

The Response

This has lead to a plethora of repetitive questions and posts essentially asking for very similar things that really can only be answered by the same few responses.

That said, This thread will act now, and for the foreseeable future until the mods see fit, as a place to aggregate, ask about, and offer solutions for, questions and concerns involving the above-referenced announcement.

For starters, a quick reminder that the Awesome-Selfhosted git continues to thrive and grow and has an easy-to-search page off all possible needs.

If, for whatever reason, you don't find what you're looking for there, or would like a bit more personal of a recommendation than a list of links, then please, ask here, after scanning through the comments to see if someone else has not already sought out what you're after.

Also, feel free to copy/paste answers from other threads that you feel need to be Reiterated here.

As always, happy (self)hosting!

EDIT

As many of you likely also got the same email, Google recently sent out an update, summarizing the changes, and detailing a lot of the more ambiguous assumptions that have been speculated upon.

I'll just paste what they sent here:

Dear Google User,

We are writing to let you know that we recently announced new storage policies for Google Accounts using Gmail, Google Drive (including Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, and Jamboard files) and/or Google Photos that bring us in line with industry practices. Since you have previously used one or more of these products in your Google Account storage, we wanted to tell you about the new policies well before they go into effect on June 1, 2021. Below is a summary of the new policies. Please reference our Help Center article for a complete list of what's changing.

Summary of the new policies (effective June 1, 2021):

• If you're inactive for 2 years (24 months) in Gmail, Drive or Photos, we may delete the content in the product(s) in which you're inactive. Google One members who are within their storage quota and in good-standing will not be impacted by this new inactive policy.
  
• if you exceed your storage limit for 2 years, we may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos.

What this means for you:

• You won't be impacted by these changes unless you've been inactive or over your storage limit for 2 years. As this policy goes into effect June 1, 2021, the earliest it would be enforced is June 1, 2023.
• After June 1, 2021, if you are either inactive or over your storage limit, we will send you email reminders and notifications in advance and prior to deleting any content.
• Even if you are either inactive or over your storage limit for one or more of these services and content is deleted, you will still be able to sign in.
• Note: The inactivity and over quota storage policies will apply only to consumer users of Google services. Google Workspace, G Suite for Education and G Suite for Nonprofits policies are not changing at this time, and admins should look to the Admin Help center for storage policies related to their subscriptions.
  

Learn more about how to keep your account active

• To learn more about how to remain active with these products, visit this Help Center page.
  
• The Inactive Account Manager can help you manage specific content and notify a trusted contact if you stop using your Google Account for a certain period of time (between 3-18 months). Note: the new 2 year inactive policy will apply regardless of your Inactive Account Manager settings. You can learn more about these changes and ways to manage your or a loved one's account in our Help Center.
  

Learn how to manage your storage

• Learn more about the over quota policy and what counts against storage quota.
  
• You can use the free storage manager in the Google One app and on the web to see how you're using your Google Account storage, and free up space across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos.

Hey /r/selfhosted!

/u/AnomalyNexus made a suggestion on the last official update, so I wanna give that a try and see how it takes.

So, /r/selfhosted, what have you learned in the past 3 months?

This likely goes without saying, but keep it to self-hosted things you've learned.

I'll Start!

I learned how to use CentOS Web-Panel's CWP -> CWP Migration tool to migrate my main web server to a new dedicated host! That was thrilling.

As always,

Happy (self)Hosting!

(P.S. I hope you had a chance to enter the Giveaway that was put on by /u/michiosynology from Synology, for a Synology DS220+. That wrapped up on the eighth of this month.)

Welcome to Q4!

The last post about asking what you all learned seemed to be a decent success, as it got a lot of interaction and comments, all the way through to even a couple of days ago. If you missed it, check it out here

Casual Reminder: Self-Hosted Defined

I have seen an influx of confusion about what does and does not qualify as "self-hosted" as defined by what is and is not allowed in this subreddit. So, let me pull from the link in the sidebar/wiki

Self-Hosting, as it pertains to the /r/selfhosted subreddit, is any software that the user who puts said software into place has whole control over the hosting environment either at the Operating System level or at the level where they fully control all data pertinent to the software being hosted, including data related to the functionality of the software being hosted.

Let me be a bit more specific as to what, implicitly, this allows:

• Free Open Source Software that can be self-hosted
• Paid, Open-Source software that can be self-hosted
• Free, Closed-Source software that can be self-hosted
• Paid, Closed-Source software that can be self-hosted
• Well-structured/curated, high-quality compilations or reviews of self-hosted software (major emphasis on the "High Quality" verbiage)
• Comparative posts between two self-hosted products
• Essentially, if the core topic is a self-hosted app/tool, it's allowed

The above definition leaves room for "software being hosted" to mean even just a binary that runs on your local machine that enables the self-hosting of said software.

Now, let's go over some examples that are only allowed on Wednesdays:

• Tools that help you manage self-hosting instances
• Tools that help you create self-hosting environments
• Tools that help you access, maintain, update, or otherwise interact with self-hosted apps/environments
• other tools, posts, discussions, or rants about a tool that is not explicitly about the tool itself (such as funding events, customer support rants, comparing two non-self-hosted-but-related-to-it tools, etc)
• Moderators have the ultimate say as to whether a tool fits the narrative of the subreddit.

What is never allowed:

• GUI-based tools that sit on a local desktop that perform a function similar to a web app, but is not intrinsically hosted in a standard "hosting environment"
• Direct offer of a sale of anything, related to this sub or not (selling accounts, selling credits, discounts on a paid self-hosted software. This does not affect posting release notices about a paid self-hosted software)
• offering services unrelated to a specific topic at hand (even still, when the service is related, this is generally frowned upon unless explicitly asked for)
• other posts as deemed necessary by the mods.

Easy Sub to Moderate

The /r/selfhosted moderators are fortunate. This community is comprised of highly intelligent, effective, knowledgeable users. This leads to a general atmosphere across the community that creates a sort of self-moderated environment; majority of the time, I'll investigate a reported post and auto moderator already took it down, and rightfully so.

So for that, I thank you all! Makes it that much easier to keep it a positive and growing space.

Speaking of Growing...

/r/selfhosted hit 200,000 subscribers last week! How cool is that, eh?

With so many new members, a self-check assessment is due. I want to hear opinions, views, tripes, preferences, desires, and questions from the community! Are we still doing a respectable job with the subreddit? Are you still getting out of it what you feel is expected? Should anything change? Do you have ideas for pinned posts? Please! Comment and let us know.

I also want to hear about your favorite tools! Whether or not it relates to self-hosting, I don't care. I know y'all have other hobbies, and I want to open up this space to let a bit of cross-pollination occur between hobbies.

For instance, I recently discovered Foundry VTT for one of my Digital Dungeons and Dragons campaigns. Sure, sure, it's technically self-hosted, but hey. It's still freaking cool!

Tl;dr

-Read the definition of what we consider self-hosted here - abide by the rules and by the Wednesday exception (explained in the rules) - Thanks for being an awesome community, we recently hit 200k subs, what else do you want out of this place, and what other tools have you recently discovered, self-hosted or not?

As always,

Happy (self)Hosting!

https://github.com/TheWicklowWolf

https://thewicklowwolf.github.io/

Who is spending their time on this? Even good questions are being downvoted sometimes within a minute of being posted.

This does not foster a good community.

https://github.com/TheWicklowWolf/eBookBuddy

This app works by retrieving a list of current items in Readarr. Users can then select specific items, and the system will find similar books to those selected.

Unfortunately this is notably slow, primarily due to the method of data retrieval. The main issue is the lack of access to the GoodReads API, and there are no other equivalent sites that provide the necessary data.

Consequently, the only viable alternative was to use web scraping. Which may lead to occasional issues and unreliability. However, the logs should provide insight into any issues.

I have now created a similar system for each of the *arrs. All of which are separate apps available here: https://github.com/TheWicklowWolf

In hindsight, integrating them into a single app would have been ideal, but I currently don't have the bandwidth to undertake that task. However, if you're interested in contributing, PRs are open. Alternatively, if you would like to support my work, you can buy me a coffee at https://buymeacoffee.com/thewicklow

P.S. If you are struggling to source books try-> https://github.com/TheWicklowWolf/BookBounty

New Year Announcement - Happy 2024!

Welcome to 2024! It's been a wild 365 days, and we're ready for the next 366 (Forget it was a leap year? I didn't)! That said, We've got some big changes planned, and we want your insight! Let's get right to it.

New Moderators

As many have noticed over the last several months, my ability to keep up with the growing subreddit (Thanks, /u/a_sugarcane for being excited about 300k members!) has been overwhelmed as my personal life has become increasingly busy. My hobbies and work life are taking up a lot more time than they have in the past.

That said, I'd like to officially welcome the first of at least 5-6 new moderators to be brought on for the new year to help with the community!

• /u/GWBrooks
• /u/NikStalwart
• /u/adamshand

I reached out to these folks specifically due to their existing involvement in the community and the positive and productive contributions they've made thus far. So welcome!

New Survey - Your Participation is greatly appreciated

We're looking for two things with this survey:

1. We want to make this place a better place by ensuring the rules and goals still align with the desires of the community
2. We want to gauge interest in new moderators!

Please take some time to fill this out as best as you can. The more feedback we get here, the better we can do moving forward for this year.

Google Forms Survey (Email address login is not required, but please, do not ***** the survey)

Survey Questions Open Discussion!

The questions all ask fairly specific questions, save for a couple of optional open-ended questions. What do you think this subreddit can use to improve its benefit to the community best?

Please, feel free to share here, and help us make it a better place for all involved.

As always,

Happy (self)Hosting!

I need a node server up and running to allow a 3rd party to test it. It would be pretty rude to tell them it has to be within whatever of the 8 hours is remaining after I email them. I have heard conflicting stuff about this. Do any of you know?

Hey there, folks! Back to another Quarterly post! I didn't want to post on the first, for fear of no one taking me seriously. Hope y'all had some fun with a some of the April Fools campaigns that made it through.

New Rule

Yes. I'm sorry. I'm doing it. Because there are too many people doing it wrong, and too many people falsely reporting these, but...

Rule #6 is being replaced, moving it down to Rule #7, to make way for a new rule and set of subrules delineating Blog Posts.

Here's the new rule set:

6. Blog Text Posts Are Allowed. They must follow the rules outlined below.

6a. You may not submit a link post directly to the blog post. A link to the blog must be in the body of the post.

6b. You should not only paste a link. Share a few sentences of what it is, why it's relevant, and how it can help. Or something that gives context as to why we should visit the link.

6c. Blog posts should be about a self-hosted tool, service, etc. All other rules that apply to posts to the subreddit apply to the content of any linked blog.

Something I need to point out for all the users we have that just love using the "blogspam" custom report reason is that blog posts were never disallowed. This is to clear the record; they're allowed, so long as they follow the new subset of rules being put into place today.

Drama Llama

Any posts, comments, content, links, or any other shared content with the purpose of stirring up any kind of drama will be removed. We love content, but we do not love drama, and in general, it makes all parties involved less credible. Just stop. For the love of all that is self-hosting, stop.

Lax Self-Promotion Enforcement

No, you're not wrong. I have been a bit lax in how I've been managing content that technically violates Rule #1, but otherwise is super helpful and useful for the community. It seems wrong to remove access to this information, data, tool, project, or post, just because the user behind the post wishes to keep their identity separate from their posting entity. In SPAMMY and blatent cases of self-promotion towards entities that are clearly not helpful to the community, action is always taken. However, I generally resort to removing via Rule #1 only if I otherwise need a reason to remove a post that doesn't quite fit elsewhere.

I hope this makes sense and is understandable. That said, please continue to report content you believe violates the self-promotion guidelines, as I rely heavily on those reports to see questionable content!

Hardware Posts

We have been experiencing an ever increasing number of posts related to hardware. If your question is related to the hardware itself, it does not belong here. this is a software focused subreddit. However, Hardware that can host software of the specific flavor we normally go for may be discussed as it pertains to hosting said software on Wednesdays, as it does follow the necessary rules allotted for that day.

Wiki Is Down

The wiki is down. I've replaced the link in the sidebar with the link to the GitHub. If you wish to view it in its current state (Pull requests are still and always will be encouraged to update content and add wiki pages), you can follow the instructions on the repo to get a local instance up and running.

Fin

You've reached the end! phew

What a post. I wish it were more positive like I'm normally able to do, but this winter has been a...rough one.

Cheers to all, and too all a happy (self)hosting!

Hey everyone, I just got my hands into self hosting and from what I can tell. This is very cool! I can manage and customize my website without a third party hosting service shoving subscriptions down my throat or suspending my account for "too many hits" (looking at you InfinityFree!).

As I was saying; since some of you are interested in hardware + software that others are using, I will just put them below.

PC Hardware:
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700x (8C 16T).
- 16GB Ram (3200).
- Asus b450m (no built in wifi).

Software:
- Windows 11 22h2.
- WSL Ubuntu 22.04 with Docker installed.
- Flarum Forum Software.
- NGINX web server.

I'm using Docker as I do not want to mess with my router, plus my motherboard does not have a built in wifi-card that I can use. So for now, I'm using my mobile data with USB-tethering enabled.

Thanks for reading this!

~S*****-196!

Hello, /r/selfhosted! And What a cool coincidence! I had planned to do a December update this morning, and I woke up to a notification that this subreddit has hit a pretty big benchmark:

150,000 subscribers!

I know, I know. Not like we're pushing /r/aww level's of followers, but for our little niche, I'll take the wins I can get, yeah?

Anyway, Just wanted to reach out to the in-crowd here in this subreddit once more with a couple small things. Nothing huge.

Thank You - Sincerely

This subreddit has always shown a sense of self-moderation. I've moderated a few larger(ish) subreddits, and this one, by far, has been the least "noisy," if you will. So, for that, I sincerely thank you all for keeping things largely civil, on-topic, and damn-near always engaging, inclusive, and constructive.

Reports Are Important

One of the ways that makes this subreddit so great is that it does have a definitive rules system that, while relatively short, are comprehensive enough to capture a lot of the worst offenders. However, being that no one¹ is ever awake and browsing reddit 24/7, the mod team relies heavily on the report system. A comment I recently replied to revealed to me that, perhaps, at least some part of the subreddit may not realize the efficacy of the report system, and just how much we lean on it as a moderator team. As such, I am once again bring this information to light, letting the subreddit as a whole know:

We look at reports daily, if not multiple times a day

Reports are also anonymous, for those worried about retaliation. The report reason is the only thing shown. Nothing else.

This may not mean every report get's remediated, as not all reports address valid concerns. Some of our patrons on this subreddit may have...more extreme interpretations of some of our rules (for instance: We get a lot of "this is spam" reports on things that aren't technically spam, and my presumption is that the reporter considers it spam in their opinion).

Followup From November

Novembers Post

So far, I have noticed a somewhat mixed, but overall positive take on the introduction of the "Wednesday" specific posting, and have largely noticed a pretty drastic decline in reports and posts relating to dashboards.

I'm still looking for new insights and perspectives on this, and am looking forward to seeing this continue as we move into the new year.

Aaaaand that's about it for this month. Wordy, perhaps, but relatively little content. Hope you all have an amazing holiday season!

And, as always...

Happy (self)hosting!

¹ inb4 all the "oh, no you don't, I LIVE, EAT, AND SLEEP reddit" comments >.>

TriggerDev can add background jobs to your NextJS application.

Furthermore, They implemented some cool ways to deal with the timeout for Vercel serverless functions by isolating each task in one request.

They are fully open-source, and self-hosted.

Here is the link:

https://github.com/triggerdotdev/trigger.dev

Good time of day, /r/selfhosted!

Keeping up on the monthly updates, I'm here for another one! This one involves one of our most controversial elements of the subreddit!

Top-Of-Post-Update:

Posts that were posted before this post are exempt and will remain alive.

Dashboards

The Dilemma

For the longest time, I've been trying to cater to the desires of both sides of the debate behind "Dashboards Posts."

There have been a number of quite successful Dashboard Posts recently, and with each and every one of them comes at least a few reports regarding how undesirable they are to at least some part of the community.

While on the flip side of this argument, the sheer popularity of these dashboard posts, and the sincere excitement and knowledge that is shared within the comments of each, would make it inappropriate to ban them outright.

Scripts, Bot's and other automation tools are often used in creating Weekly/Monthly mega-threads, but I've not seen a lot of success with these in this sub in the past, nor am I in a position to be able to make a fancy bot or automod ruleset that manages these threads/posts.

The Proposed Solution

I happen to be a fan of /r/powerwashing*****, and, each Wednesday, they offer their patrons the ability to post similar things that display a similar "effect" to what power washing demonstrates, but isn't actually power washing. Popular ones are Laser cleaning, Intense non-power-wash cleaning, lawn mowing, etc.

Taking from that model, From here forward, I have created a new flare, as well as a New Rule and report reason, entitled "Wednesday".

Please take a moment to freshen up on the rules while reading the new one, please!

I'll copy it here:

Each Wednesday, appropriately flared posts about the following items are allowed:

• Dashboard Posts: Show off your dashboard, tell us how you made it, etc. Self-text, Link post, doesn't matter.

• Tools and Topics about things that are NOT directly self-hosted, but contribute in some way to the self-hosting community directly.

Keep in mind, all other rules apply to this, as well. This rule simply extends what qualifies as "related content" on this subreddit, on a specific day.

An example of something allowed under the second bullet point might be a really cool SSH Client you discovered. Or perhaps a new backup tool that allows you a lot easier of a time, but may not be self-hostable, as it's more of a one-time-use script/app rather than a repeatable-use self-hosted, remotely-accessible service as otherwise described by the spoken and unspoken assumptions used in this community.

This rule can be utilized as soon as tomorrow, (Wednesday, 11/3/2021) the first Wednesday of the month.

I do hope the community enjoys this change, and I do hope the anti-dashboard-post patrons find this to be a relatively fair option.

As we should be, the moderators here are ready to hear concerns, questions, suggestions, etc. Just shoot us a mod mail or reply here with your piece, and we can talk!

Thanks for always being awesome, folks!

As always, Happy (self)hosting!

Source: Hetzner lost customer data and gave 20€ as compensation (bleepingcomputer.com)

This is a 3 month old news but I was not aware of this.

I wanted to sign up for hetzner past year but with all the amazing (sarcasm) user reviews, I could not proceed lol

So, hetzner you still want potential customers to submit their ID?