@jdaviescoates A platform to consider is SendFox. They offer a pay-once option for $US49 that would handle 5,000 subscribers. I can't vouch for deliverability, but I have referred several clients to this platform without any negative feedback. Another option is Mailerlite. Again, I have no firsthand knowledge about deliverability but clients are using this with no complaints.

That being said, ListMonk looks like an interesting platform that we are evaluating to provide email list subscription services (using Cloudron) to our clients rather than referring them to these external solutions.

Since your client is paying in Canadian dollars, I would suggest that they confirm with any of these solution providers that their platforms comply with any Canadian spam and privacy regulations.

Lastly, it can be difficult to migrate from one provider to another. The new provider can get prickly about "opt-in" requirements and whether a CSV list exported from Constant Contact (assuming this is possible) meets those requirements. Better to know what is and what is not permissible before leaving Constant Contact.

also, i should ask, why does this thing have to send you emails?
o well, luckily i setup an alias that can be disabled at anytime in the case that i get annoyed.
i use simplelogin for my dayly email

@Neiluj said in Web dev - How would you go at it today?:

breaking things into "ingestible" bits / smaller actionable parts

You know, I tried this exactly ... with ChatGPT! I've managed to get one app idea into a visual, working, state. I gave the command, and because I said the app has to be cross-platform, ChatGPT opted to give a bunch of code in Flutter. I then decided to install all the required software (flutter, android studio, etc.) to see if the code actually worked, and it did. From that initial command, I then iterated on it and asked, "with the code you just gave me, add this functionality" a few times and wow. I'm currently stuck on getting it to provide me with code to plug into a db backend, but it's progress.

@micmc does the generic S3 option not work?

Sure, did you see this? https://www.ssdnodes.com/contact/

I've been working across 12 time zones, and always got help when I needed it (but like I said, it was just the Dashboard-based ticket system I used, I've never had something so screwed up I had to call someone!)

@necrevistonnezr said in Thinking about self-hosting; why do/don't you run your own hardware?:

More interesting is the router you have at home and what traffic you're able to block etc. More advanced routers allow to block traffic based on IP lists etc.

I have a FRITZ!Box 7590AX

@LoudLemur nice, will add the region in Cloudron UI as well. it's already there.

@chet-williams good suggestion for the Syncthing devs upstream. 👍

If your content is composable, https://www.sanity.io is the way to go.

@chetbaker that would be great

After 36 hours they are up again, CEO wrote a post mortem, very interesting: https://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-on-cloudflare-control-plane-and-analytics-outage/

sorry i have'nt been active in alomst a week

Okta did it again...
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/okta-says-hackers-breached-its-support-system-and-viewed-customer-files/

I've only ever moved once my existing setup runs out of space or I've added more apps and need more RAM/ CPU.

@LoudLemur said in FOSDEM 2024 - Save the date: 3 & 4 February 2024:

I wonder what ticketing system they use for the event

It says: "You don't need to register. Just turn up and join in!"

But in the past for other big similar conferences I've seen people make use of Pretix.

Although I also like this really simple Gath.io app too

Interesting dilemma. I always have started with the fresh Ubuntu server as recommended, and I follow the usual DigitalOcean tuts ('cause I always forget) to tightening up SSH, disallowing root login, BUT I do create a second sudo user, and set up SSH to allow logins only by key, no passwords. Then, when I install Cloudron while logged in with the root user, it all goes well, root can't login, but my secondary sudo user still can. Maybe it was the name you choose? In reading your steps, I don't see that you did anything particular to the SSH service. So perhaps when Cloudron gets installed it does something which takes precedence over your non-steps, locking that user out. In my /home directory there is root, yellowtent and secondarysudouser. I suggest setting up your SSH service first, then install Cloudron.

the reasoning for using cloudflareaccess would be to insure that my admins need approval before accessing the box. cloudron doesn't offer that level of security. also for me, i illiminate the threat of public internet access by only filtering ports to cloudflare at the firewall level. currently, there is no good way to run cloudflare argo tunnels on cloudron.