Server up
2025-02-04
After waiting way too long, I finally have a server online. Nothing big, just a RPi 5 running Alpine to provide some services for myself and other. I'm trying to focus on hosting sites built to be minimal, without the bloat much of the modern web has. It also exclusively serves on dark/altnets (Yggdrasil and Tor currently, I'll hopefully have I2P stuff running within a week or so) to promote using that over the clearnet. The service's name is "Midgard", I felt like that fits the theme of creating a more human web and goes with "Yggdrasil" nicely.
Current services are forums (running Simple Machines Forum) and sites (using Caddy). The forums still have some work that needs to get done (selfhosting jQuery, fixing resource fetching outside of Tor) but it should fully work on Tor. You can access it here, but I have it set so accounts require approval as I'm currently a frequent target of spam commonly including things I very much do not want to be hosting.
I also host personal sites for me and some others.
The home page for Midgard isn't done yet, but it's going to be done soon. Tor link, Yggdrasil Link
Planned services include Vaultwarden (a password manager) and Forgejo (a Git forge). Not sure if/when they'll come.
If you want a site hosted on Midgard, feel free to reach out to me on XMPP with a Git repo link, a brief description, and I might set it up for you if the site isn't too big and bloated and it isn't something I wouldn't want on my machines (please no pedo/zoo shit, no hate speech or anything like that, no malware obviously). Also don't rely on me too hard for maintaining uptime. Things have been going fairly smoothly so far but I'm still pretty new to self hosting so I can't guarantee much in the way of stability.