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Set up ATProto pds with NixOs

Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider ATProto network. - https://atproto.com/guides/self-hosting

Set up your personal ATProto PDS with NixOs

This guide walks you through the process to host your own PDS instance using NixOs, agenix for secure environment management, and Caddy as a reverse proxy for traffic encryption.

Thanks to the Nixpkgs contributors for making this possible!

You need to have a server running NixOs. Using nixos-anywhere makes it easy to install on a vps. The server configuration should be in a NixOs flake.

Monitor Caddy logs with goaccess

Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Monitor Caddy logs with GoAccess

This website has no javascript, no cookie, no tracker whatsoever, but I finally wanted to keep track of the number of reads of my writings. The problem is how to keep records of some numbers like the total of visitor for a day or the list of referring websites while keeping few information about clients IPs.

Caddy is my first choice as an simple http server for hosting all my static websites. It is easy to setup and it has HTTPS automatic support.

Install NixOs on an OVH vps with nixos-anywhere

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Install NixOs on an OVH vps with nixos-anywhere

2023 was the year I was nix pilled. 2024 is the year for the experimentations. I discovered the power of NixOs for server deployment with this talk from Carl Dong: The dark arts of NixOs deployments.

He talked about the new nixos-rebuild command to easily change and deploy the configuration of a server and how using kexec(8) and disko to install NixOs on it without the nixos-infect scripts (which are more a hack than a clean way to do it).