NotEasyBeingGreen

@NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you recommend me a free domain service?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to have an authoritative DNS server listening and answering somewhere. Is this running at your home?

  If it is, then try querying the IP directly. The most commonly used tool is “dig”, but other ones are available. It should look something like:

  dig @your-public-IP subdomain.eu.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you recommend me a free domain service?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What DNS software are you running?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: unattended-upgrades restarted nginx in the middle of my stream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been running it on a Debian VPS for years as a test. So far not a single problem, although I don’t let it reboot on its own (I do monthly reboots, that I am thinking of changing to fortnightly).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you recommend me a free domain service?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can try EU.org possibly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you keep your backups?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use nightly backups. I keep them 2 weeks.

  After that I keep a weekly backup for 2 months.

  After that I keep a monthly backup for 2 years.

  I keep my yearly backups forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which domain registry or specific TLD do you prefer, and why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ccTLD are best, as they don’t have a contract with ICANN setting their service. While ICANN tries to be a multi-stakeholder, international organization with broad representation… underneath all the bylaws and process and ap on it is a US company incorporated in California.

  Probably the TLD of your own country is good!

  If you don’t care about that, then either .coffee or .soy for sure. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is AGPLv3, or an exception if a corporation pays for one (in which case it just becomes a commercial license).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you monitor your servers?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that you have to do quite a bit more setup on email than most other services. There’s SPF and DKIM and DMARC and so on. Plus spam filtering, setting up accounts and authentication, …

  Plus email is arguably more important than anything else, since it’s kind of the lowest common denominator of the Internet; your dentist will probably send you an email to remind you of appointments, job offers will arrive via email, password resets arrive via email, and so on.

  So it is a bit scary.

  Having said that, as long as you’re not hosting from a residential IP addresses it is definitely achievable. You can start with one domain and use it for low-value purposes (or for accounts that allow multiple email addresses, like GitHub).