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I started training in my teen years to be a bench jeweler and over a decade later in the jewelry manufacturing scene and after the advance of tech, I found myself becoming a 3D modeler. I've given up on my hammer and torch a while back. CAD and 3D printing are mostly what I do all day long now. I'm in the process of expanding into other fields as I'm using my knowledge in CAD/CAM to create all sorts of things. It turns out if you know CAD/CAM + Rendering + general knowledge in coding/tech, there's nothing you can't create and sell online. At this stage, I'm not sure what my job title is. A modeler, a creator, or a retailer? This question always makes me pause and I end up telling people, "I do computer stuff" and they assume I'm coding all day long

Hi,

I have a handful of apps that I elected not to back up automatically and it would be nice to have an option to group them to make it easier when I'm creating the backups manually.

Thanks!

@robi I'll get right on that. Thank you.

@marcusquinn I can't believe services like that exists. But I might have to use it if all else fails.

I dug a bit deeper and came across some interesting posts:

https://serverfault.com/questions/709736/how-does-dnswl-work-how-can-i-gain-better-trust

I visited DNSWL.org and registered for listing my domain and IP with them.

I ran a multi-RBL check against my server IP on Anti Abuse (http://www.anti-abuse.org/) and found out that SpamRats had it listed for spam. I just submitted a request for removal.

Now that I think about it. I regret getting rid of my old DO server. I've been using that for years and didn't have these issues. I should have used the new server as a transitional server while I installed Cloudron on the old one. Lesson learned.

@d19dotca My problem with Signal and most other apps is that you need a phone number or email address associated with the account which can be mined from the metadata.

Signal removed the "from" in the metadata but for an app that touts "secure communications", you'd think they would have done that since the app's inception.

You might say, "I don't have anything to hide" or "I don't care if they know some things about me" but all this info is being collected and they're building a profile about you so they can profit from it. That's the best case scenario. Now imagine dictators having that kind of power in their hands. What's stopping corporations, governments, organizations from abusing this power? Nada. We have to protect ourselves by denying them every bit of data no matter of irrelevant it may seem. Ask yourself, if it's that irrelevant, why do they want it so bad? Why does big brother want a backdoor into encryption?

I rest my case.

@jdaviescoates This doesn't make sense though. It's like we're being forced to use big tech solutions or get thrown under the bus. If I have all the proper records set up with a clean server IP and sending score then they should go to the inbox. You wanna know what's really funny? I receive 5-10 spam emails per day from GMAIL accounts and they come right into my inbox.

@marcusquinn I'm still considered somewhat new to Cloudron and I certainly am one of those folk who seek help on the forum but I never expected an answer from the Cloudron team. I would open a support ticket for that but I got on the forum because I felt bad opening a ticket for random questions. It was quite refreshing to see them this active on the forum though but like you said, it does take away from their development time. It would be great to have moderators to help out.

I'm against expanding the forum categories since trying to find the right section to post in becomes a hassle. For example, it took me this whole time to stumble upon the "Help Wanted or Offered" section under "App Packaging & Development" and that's only one category deep. Since these categories are meant to help newcomers and people with no coding skills (like myself), they should be the first thing we see.

After frequenting the forums lately, I've noticed that most of the regulars on here are developers but Cloudron is meant to connect regular people with better hosting and apps so the main focus of the forum should be around that goal. To keep the development channel clean, perhaps there should be a special group for app developers with their own sub-forum. You can limit replies and new topics to the group or making those categories hidden from other users altogether.

I'd like to add to this. The ability to select the pass length and whether we want special characters. Or if it's easier to do, allow us to add our own passwords instead of them being generated for us.

@girish I got a 10/10 with one yellow "Your message does not contain a List-Unsubscribe header". I don't send bulk emails from my server so I guess it doesn't apply to me. I've been sending emails from the server to my gmail accounts for the past hour and removing them from the spam folder and replying to each one. I think it's starting to work but now I have to test other providers like hotmail and yahoo.

This is a great online app. For personal use, I'm using TinyPNG's API but it's limited to 500 images/mo. It would be awesome to have a self-hosted option. For work, I use IrfanView (installs locally on your PC) and it can do batch conversions. With the right settings, I got it to work just as good as TinyPNG. I use it mostly to optimize 360 degree product renderings so I have thousands of images at a time. Works great.

I'm using this WP plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-piwik/

WP-Piwik Settings

Matomo-Mode: Self-Hosted (HTTP, API)
Auto-Config: Checked
Add Tracking Code: Default Tracking
Javascript code position: Footer
Enable Cache: Checked

Matomo Install Settings - I'm running the bare minimum tracking to protect user privacy as much as possible while collecting enough info to understand my traffic

Anonymize IP by 2 Bytes
Keeping a short timeframe for deleting old logs
Enable DNT support
Geolocation - DBIP / GeoIP 2 PHP

@jdaviescoates No problem. I forgot to mention that Firefox might give you a problem with error messages (just ignore them) but if Matomo doesn't seem to be registering any hits then try to disable DNT. With DNT on, I had issues with the hits showing up in the WP dashboard.

You got my upvote for this. I ran into this exact thing yesterday. I just set up a B2 bucket w/ rsync and it took over 16 hours before I had to kill it. Tgz took less than 10 minutes today. My entire server is around 28GB.

Edit: Just found out how to upvote lol.

@marcusquinn I don't mind. He's interested in jewelry manufacturing, CAD/CAM, or both? DM me their email address when ready.

@mehdi Other than custom jewelry design jobs that I do for jewelry retailers, I work on creating accessories for all kinds of products. I aim for the hobbies (RC toys, gamers, etc.) because they spend without thinking logically lol.

@ei8fdb Thanks. Most people that ask me what I do, don't even know what 3D modeling means. I get that blank face and then I just say "computer stuff" and they're like OHHHHHH.

I don't know about NodeBB or Discourse but Wordpress is a spam magnet. The first thing I do for fresh WP installs is set up Wordfence and 2FA TOTP and within the first 48 hours, I would have hundreds of bot login attempts that get blocked.

I'm a bit late to the party but just want to say Cloudflare be damned. I use a VPN online and every site that has Cloudflare CDN blocks me out. Oh, and you can add Google Captcha to the naughty list.

Hi all,

I'm using Cloudron's mail server for sending out mail. I have set up SPF, DKIM, & DMARC but for some reason my mail end up in Gmail's spam folders. Yesterday, I added my domains to Google's Postmaster page. My server isn't blacklisted according to online lookup sites. What could be causing this?

@marcusquinn As you've mentioned, social engineering and phishing pose a greater risk than brute force attacks. I read an article once about SMS hijacking that shows that SMS/phone numbers shouldn't be used to secure an account at all. I'll post it if I find it again.

@girish I prefer having it all on the same page. Even if I wasn't using TOTP for that account. For those that aren't tech savvy enough to know what TOTP is, it might push them to look it up and educate themselves. Win win, really.

@girish I think it's fine to keep it as it is. I only embed iframes on 1 out of 4 WP installs that I have running so I can see the benefit of having it set like that by default.

I've never went through this before and had no idea what to look for after I ruled out any plugins/themes as being the culprit. It just left me scratching my head. It would be nice if you could add a mention of it in the docs though https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/wordpress-unmanaged/

@marcusquinn In that case, between Cloudron and Bitwarden's pass generator, we're all set.

@d19dotca said in How have you got your Matomo set-up?:

** I also enabled in that plugin to not count visits from sign-in admin users, I feel that keeps me from throwing off the analytic data a bit whenever I'm making a bunch of changes to the site where I'm needing to load up all the pages to check stuff in.

Nice catch. I forgot to turn that on after I was done setting things up. Thanks!