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I was wondering about the pros and cons about self hosting your services via Yunohost. I currently have all my services hosted in docker containers on a Debian homeserver. As I was planning on a fresh install, setting up an Ansible script to simplify backup & restoring and bake in a centralized user management system (currently I annoyingly have separate passwords for each service for my 5 users).

Now I was wondering if I could get some experience reports from Yunohost users. What are the problems you faced? Are you satisfied? Are there so many services you couldn’t find that you rather went the selfhosted way and integrate Authelia or a similar service? Any ideas and feedback is welcome that can help make up my mind.

  • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
    31·
    8 days ago
    1. Unable to host apps without exposing them to the web
    2. Despite a simplified GUI, a lot of the system is still dependent on CLI
    3. they make you use subdomains and / as well. Like blog.website.com/blog
    4. Outdated apps (some much more than others)
    5. Poor/no support when something goes wrong
    6. An entire Debian generation behind (not sure if that one matters but it is weird)
    7. Can’t run multiple of the same service

    I’ve tried them all and it’s overall the best but still has a whole lot of room for improvement

    • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Some of these points are inaccurate. Numbers 3 and 7 are definitely dependent on the app in question. I also rarely have to do anything in CLI, a recent update moved an issue I had with LE certs from the CLI to the web admin. As far as support, the forum can be inconsistent and the XMPP chat is more responsive. Dev team is in France though, so timezone can cause delays.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        31·
        8 days ago

        Some of these points are inaccurate.

        …any specific ones?

        the XMPP chat is more responsive

        I didn’t even know there was an XMPP chat, but any chat seems like an awful way to get support…

        timezone can cause delays

        We’re not talking about hours here, we’re talking about days/weeks or months.

    • danceswithcats@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Point three: not true. My blog is TLD. With nonpublic services, which a lot of private server functions are, what’s the problem with a subdomain?

      Most Google services are reached through subdomains, aren’t they? They certainly were when I was forced to use them.

      • danceswithcats@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Also, you can run as many TLDs on a yunost instance as you can afford and your machinery can stand. I’ve got two IP addresses on mine: one for front end apps and one for backend.