Next year will see major improvements as well as WTF becoming an official @linodians.com project. Stay tuned!

Providing a New Home to JSON Feed I'm a huge advocate of RSS feeds but their use is fading into obscurity. When I discovered JSON Feed I was ecstatic but the project has languished. Today I'm finally doing something about it.

I'm a huge advocate of RSS feeds but their use is fading into obscurity. When I discovered JSON Feed I was ecstatic but the project has languished. Today I'm finally doing something about it.

www.linodians.com/blog/providi...

VPS Showdown lets you compare one VPS provider to another. Compare specs and real-world benchmarks that run from real servers on those platforms.

www.linodians.com/blog/vps-showdown--the-e...

Mattermost v11 Changes in Free Offerings Since 2023, we’ve been expanding Mattermost’s mission from open source DevSecOps to supporting national security and resilience communities. To support this broader focus, v11 introduces updates to th...

As Mattermost v11 lands, changes are coming to their offerings, plans, and licenses. Most notably for our crowd, Mattermost Team Edition will no longer support more than 250 users.

forum.mattermost.com/t/mattermost...

#OpenSource #mattermost #SelfHosting #HomeLab

Linode Regions and Types for Ansible and Terraform I ran into an issue that many seemed to when using Linode (Akamai) with Terraform or Ansible for the first time. To define a Linode VPS, the type/plan and the data center where it should be located is...

Region and Type slugs for Linode Ansible and Terraform.

www.linodians.com/blog/a-list-...

Debian 13 “Trixie” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New - 9to5Linux Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, improved hardware support, and other changes.

Debian 13 "Trixie" is out! Some changes include 64bit support for RISC-V, APT 3, GNOME 48, and Linux 6.12.

9to5linux.com/debian-13-tr...

#debian #linux

Introducing UniFi OS Server for MSPs Deploy UniFi OS Server on your own hardware for license free local control, secure cloud management, SD WAN, and Zero Trust networking services for MSPs.

Ubiquiti is bringing Unifi OS to self-hosters. In a new package called Unifi OS Server, you get Network Application (which we already had), InnerSpace, Identity and a promise of additional applications.

Here's UI's official announcement: lnkd.in/eUkZV2Gf

Dealing with domain name renewal...

You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games) - Jeff Geerling's article on the horrible practice happening with games, music, movies, and shows.

www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/yo...

A future of documentation for Linodians Linodians will have a large documentation section. It’s something that’s important to me. I’m hoping to carry on the days of the Linode Library and back when DigitalOcean was really investing in their...

Thoughts on Linux server docs? Join the discussion on the forum: discuss.linodians.com/t/a-future-o...

It was June 1, 2016 when I launched the Linodians Slack team (now called workspaces). With the recent re-launch of @linodians.com, today I shut that Slack workspace down.

You can find the current place for Linodians discussion to happen, including chat, at discuss.linodians.com

A Bittersweet Find: There's a Self-Hosting Podcast and It Just Ended I came across a podcast about self-hosting aptly named, Self-Hosted. It never occurred to me that there would be a podcast dedicated to the subject but here we are. 😊 The joy of this find quickly came...

Self-Hosted podcast comes to an end. What now? www.linodians.com/blog/a-bitte...

FTC finalizes order requiring GoDaddy to secure hosting services The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order requiring web hosting giant GoDaddy to secure its services to settle charges of data security failures that led to several data breaches since...

😬 www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

2025.6: Getting picky about Bluetooth Great new Bluetooth connection graphs, all pickers have been revamped, sidebar management improvements, (un)group media players straight from your dashboards, and more!

Home Assistant: June release and bluetooth

www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/06...

Great to hear. Hopefully we'll see you on the forum or Mastodon instance.

Cloudflare (www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/25...) and Google Cloud (status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...) both having outages right now.

The Tale of the Three Linodians If you’ve seen the homepage you’ve seen the tagline. Linodians is “an online community for those of us who geek out over self-hosted software, homelabs, and Linux”. While today I am “launching” this w...

Today we (re)launch Linodians, an online community for those of us who geek out over self-hosted software, homelabs, and Linux.

Read the story of how this came to be via the first Linodians blog post: www.linodians.com/blog/the-tal...

Linodians An online community for those of us who geek out over self-hosted software, homelabs, and Linux.

Our new website is live. Check it out: www.linodians.com