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my adventures in #selfhosting - day 100 (milestones edition) 
Good morning Fedi friends!
Today I'm filled with gratitude as I think back about all the ways I have changed - and become more empowered - since I installed @yunohost on my VPS on December 17, 2024.
The biggest difference is my state of mind. For example, yesterday I started using #PeerTube, after setting up an account on the instance MakerTube. I am enjoying it IMMENSELY. I uploaded a couple of my videos there but then immediately thought: I should set up my own instance!
If you had told me 4 months ago that one day I would be a couple of clicks away from setting up my own PeerTube, I would have thought you were hallucinating. But #YunoHost has given me this power and confidence – for which I am infinitely grateful.
Since early February 2025 I have also gotten a bit of experience installing things on a separate VPS with command lines. Even if my self-hosted Ghost blog has given me lemons so far (Mastodon Hug of Death, you're to blame for this!) I am undeterred. I will try tweaking my NGINX settings next week, to set up a reverse proxy and increase my cache. Or heck, I could block Mastodon preview card requests and all my problems would go away. (If someone knows how to do that, please let me know!)
100 days of self-hosting, wow! I feel like a completely different person. Digital sovereignty rocks.
What are my goals for the next 100 days?
1) solving my self-hosted Ghost blog troubles
2) getting an education in caching, reverse proxies and the like
3) setting up my PeerTube instance
Thank you for encouraging me to go on this journey and for all your incredible advice and generous offers to help. This is truly the best community 
#MySoCalledSudoLife #YunoHost
@elena Let me know if I can help with the Ghost troubles.
@Jonock thank you! If you have any clue about how I could block the fetching of Mastodon card previews, I'm all ears 
@elena So when you paste a link, it gets fetched as a preview card? And you just want it as a normal Link?
@Jonock Yes! To avoid the Mastodon Hug of Death
@elena Not sure you can block that since it gets generated from the SEO data that Ghost exposes to the web. But the load should not be too heavy I guess…
@elena uh ok, this seems tricky... (great article btw.). Did not expect it to be that huge of a traffic-hog. Do you currently face downtimes when posting on Mastodon on your website?
@Jonock Not from posting per se, but I attempted to update the URL of a popular blog post on Mastodon... and that instantaneously took down my VPS (the pinned Mastodon post had over 100 shares and likes). Fetching the new preview card was lethal.
I have yet to experience what it's like more organically... with boosts happening progressively. But apparently it's a common problem and someone told me popular blogs have gone so far as to turn off the Mastodon preview card to avoid downtimes