been informed trans mom dot love might need to relocate :thounking: what bad timing, right when I don't have expendable money even for groceries…

I don't see any ways I can keep my services up except dusting off some of these hard drives if they still work, spending a few precious weekends I'd rather be out hiking on fiddling with operating systems on raspberries/pine64s/etc., and literally running trans mom dot love from my living room on home fibre with dynamic IP?? because like the only price I can pay for a server at the moment is 0€, and the only server I know of that costs 0€ is my raspberry. forced permacomputing lmao

let's see, what are the main services that I run at trans mom dot love:

- main mastodon
- secret gotosocial alt
- email
- nextcloud
- vaultwarden
- matrix
- photoprism
- https files (mostly images for the blogs atm)

I do still have access to the dreamhost shared web account that costs 0€ since mid-2000s for reasons I won't get into, but that's a non-root old-fashioned webhosting account where I can ssh and put things on port 443, but I can't run my own daemons or other software. at best php+sql stuff (using fcgi and their own sql server). I can use it to share static files I think, but not nextcloud or anything that looks like "cloud storage". mastodon is right out.

mastodon can probably be run from my home, slowly, even with dynamic IP (I've done it before). maybe it would be a good time to migrate my main to gotosocial and retire from using masto altogether.

email I guess the only solution is to give up self-hosting and use the Dreamhost server. at least I have [redacted] for political activities.

vaultwarden is a bit of a challenge :thounking: I suppose I could revert to keepass, using one different keepass database for each of my identities (and therefore losing the functionality of group account sharing), because then I just have to sync some files which could probably be achieved with syncthing.

photoprism will have to be replaced by some offline photo management thing, assuming my old HDDs are still not too banged up, and I will just have to live without the ability to invoke my old glamorous selfies / porn when I'm outside the house, which I rarely do anyway.

nextcloud. there's two uses for this: one is sharing files / calendar / etc. with the family, the other is me accessing notes and documents when I'm outside. I suppose both could be reasonably achieved with a living room server. local access won't be slow, and remote access will be very slow but should be doable for stuff like notes or emergency getting the pdf of a form. if I'm unlucky I may have to wait a dynamic-DNS propagation.

matrix is not as necessary for me as it once was. these days I only use it to talk with the family about certain topics I'd rather self-host. but at this point it might be easier to move everyone to something like Deltachat etc.

in any case I guess what I can be sure of is I'll have to resume working on my long-abandoned homelab and make this precarious living room LAN halfway decent, if it's going to be hosting half of my Internet-facing services...

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