Thanks! I’ll check with my vps provider.

However, this proxy does not seem to be “within” the tor network itself, right? I’m just connecting someone to the first entry node on the system, correct?

Would I be transmitting unencrypted data? In other words, would an outsider be able to tell that I’m transmitting something illegal to a person accessing tor?

Thanks! Would you be able to elaborate a bit more?

It was my understanding that this is not the same thing as running an exit node.

Interesting, thanks!

I’ve been meaning to host something like this. Tried to do it with wallabag, but couldn’t be arsed to set-up and SMTP server just for the confirmation email.

Honestly? Probably boredom. Computer-related projects are addictive to me.

Haven’t ventured too far, but searxng was my first selfhosted service. It’s very easy, single container, no database.

Yeah I’ve been meaning to look into it.

Just went with pass because it’s what I’m used to, and it’s pretty straightforward. But definitely next on my to-do list.

Makes sense, the people who have both the tech knowledge and conviction on the advantages of selfhosting, were probably the most active posters.

I use shh keys for all my remote machines, set passwords automatically with ansible, and store them with pass.

https://www.passwordstore.org/

EDIT:

Just to clarify, ansible can use pass as a password store, so in the ansible playbooks you can write which password you want to retrieve from pass.

You can also call pass from any shell script by writing $(pass <target_password>)

You can always compile it, it’s just a single cargo command. 🤷‍♂️

Besides what everyone already said, I would emphasize docker. Just take the plunge and learn it. It will make hosting and keeping things organised much easier.

If you want to go the extra mile, you could have a look into ansible, to make your build reproducible. But it’s probably overkill for now. You’d probably take so long to get anything done that you might lose interest.

Less storage space (since you don’t duplicate the data that has not been changed since the last backup), and ability to check different versions / restore / rollback.

You seem to have conveniently left out power consumption.

I agree they are very pricey these days. Are there any competitiors that offer cheap low-power consumption computers?

Never self-hosted Lemmy, but have self-hosted other things in the past. While you don’t necessarily need to code, you need a fair amount of code-adjacent skills. If you ever want to get into self-hosting, you should have a look into (at least):

• the linux command line
• ssh
• how ports work
• VPS providers
• DNS registrars
• nginx
• docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

It makes sense in terms of reproducibility.

Imagine if your server gets compromised, you accidentally break it, or you just want to move to a cheaper provider or a different server. Do you want to have to tweak it all over again, and fix bugs that you figured out how to fix 6 months ago and you don’t remember?

I’d rather have some yaml files that do it for me. And it’s a new skill as well.

Docker is definitely worth the time investment.

If OP wants to go one level deeper: Ansible.