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YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.

I recently discovered yunohost, a French project for easy selfhosting. Does anyone have experience with that?

  • poloqualle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I really like it. Yes, you have way more control by using docker/nixos/etc of course, but for things like seafile or nextcloud, yunohost does the good ol’ 80% job with 20% of the effort and time, at least for me.

  • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yunohost is okayish. Some apps sadly are badly maintained and therefore upgraded with more delay than I considered acceptable (but that has improved afaik)and integration into a single “look and feel” is a bit lacking. Nevertheless it’s solid in the end.

    If you are willing to pay something Cloudron may be an alternative for you as well - very well maintained product, good support team and rock solid from my experience - and it’s a non-US/non-China company. (German to be exact) But it costs money for more than 2 applications. I nevertheless went with them - I don’t self host as a hobby, I self-host because I want shit to work. Between job and family I have no time to fiddle around with things and keep everything updated on a short notice. I have project where I can do that, but they are not something my family or myself depend on. (And they integrate nicely with Cloudron as you can add “custom” Apps/use it as a proxy and OpenID Provider)

    • WhiteHotaru@feddit.orgOPEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      Nice! I live in Germany and your situation looks similar to mine. I started with Linux 20 years ago and bought a Synology about a year ago. I have my most essential services (backup, photos, Media server and paperless) running on that machine in my local network. I started with a small VPS and a blog after this, to see if I could handle managing a server. It went well.

      We have a small cabin we share with others and I wanted to set up some basic services like a calendar. Went across a post about yunohost and gave it a try.

      • philpo@feddit.orgEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Have a look at Cloudron as well,then. It’s free for 2 Apps and Johannes (the founder) is a fairly nice guy from Bavaria.

        Anyway,yeah. I have a different post here what I self host (which doesn’t even include everything…) so it’s a slippery slope.

    • cichy1173@szmer.infoEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Not exactly. Yunohost offers solution to host services openly to the internet thanks to simplified configuration of domains (and it even offers free domains) and reverse proxy. Also it has built in email server (not client, but the server). Apps are packaged in its own format and with unique configuration, it is not just some wrapper for Docker Conpose

  • VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Big part of me loving selfhosting stuff is that I get to learn things a lot. I think it’s pretty amazing that these sort of projects exist but I’ll always use good ol’ $BASIC_SERVER_OS.

  • specialseaweed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I had the same experience as many here. Great place to start out and if you don’t need or want more control then it’s perfect. I ended up on unraid and mostly use docker for apps.

    • Banthex@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 days ago

      For my vps i use yunohost and for selfhosting from Synology to unraid now. Yunohost is very time saving with subdomain and security Management.

  • koala@programming.devEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I did some testing with it, because I believe more people should be able to self-host.

    I like how it is implemented. It has good support for email. Many apps support SSO.

    The critical part to me is how up-to-date applications are. I started a small project to automate version tracking, check out:

    https://alexpdp7.github.io/selfhostwatch/app/nextcloud.html

    ; so for example, the YunoHost Nextcloud app does not lag much behind upstream. My intention with this is to let people see that they have been updating Nextcloud dilligently for two years; they might pull the plug tomorrow, but it’s a good track record.

    (I’d like to add scrapers to other projects similar to YunoHost. My ultimate goal would be to be able to choose a list of apps you’d like to self-host, and see which projects like YunoHost carry the applications you want, and compare how they track updates.)

  • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Nice as a starting point, but not enough features to make it worth it for advanced setups.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Use it everyday. I self host a number of fedi services. It’s a great os.

    Most of the apps are great, but there are a couple that are no longer maintained.

  • RagingHungryPanda@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Elena Rossini (@_elena@mastodon.social) is a journalist who’s gotten into the fediverse and self hosting with Yuno Host. She’s documented it on her blog. It’s worked out really well for her.

  • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Used for years, then moved into docker containers.

    It’s pretty rad, especially as a domain controller.

  • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’ve used it when I started out and it’s good, I can recommend it if you just want something where you can hit install and it works. I just use docker containers now though because I have more experience and it allows to set everything up exactly how I want.

    • whysofurious@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Same process here, started with yunojost and now using docker directly. Still Yunohost got me into self-hosting when I didn’t know anything about it, definitely recommended for starting out.