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Forgejo (and Gitea) on a LYLIX VPS — backups, CI runners, mirror workflows

Forgejo is a hard fork of Gitea, run by a community non-profit. Both are excellent lightweight self-hosted Git…

Headscale on a LYLIX VPS — running your own Tailscale control plane

Tailscale's client is excellent but the control plane is hosted on Tailscale's infrastructure. Headscale is an…

Mastodon on a LYLIX VPS — sidekiq scaling, S3-compatible storage, federation traffic

Mastodon is the most-self-hosted Fediverse server. It works fine for a single user; it scales reasonably to a few…

Matrix Synapse on a LYLIX VPS — federation, performance tuning, the database trap

Matrix Synapse is the most-deployed Matrix homeserver. It runs as a single VPS server fine; the failure modes are…

Nextcloud at production scale on a LYLIX VPS — storage, OCC, malware scanning

Nextcloud is the most common "file sync + collaboration" self-host. The default tutorial install works for a couple…

Plausible analytics on a LYLIX VPS — privacy-friendly replacement for Google Analytics

Plausible is a privacy-focused web analytics tool: no cookies, no personal data collection, GDPR/CCPA-compliant by…

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