Do You Self Host?

I'm struggling with TLS certificates. I've been self-hosting a BIND instance for my personal domain for 8 years, but I have no idea how to add Let's Encrypt support to that.

So all I do is maintain my zone files manually, so all our devices have their own host name on the domain. But I haven't been able to host any services, because I have no idea where to start learning how to integrate Let's Encrypt.

Was self-hosting email for maybe 20 years myself - but I'd say I only really understood enough to make it work. Been using https://mailinabox.email/ for the last 5 years or so and I'm pretty happy with that - works better than what I was doing myself using mostly the same underlying tools.

I personally self host

- email

- a couple meta search engines (librex and searxng)

- a couple of invidious instances

- an xmpp server for chatting with friends

- an openvpn instances

- tor as dns resolver

- pihole as dns blocker (even locally on my laptop)

- jitsi for video meetings

- some webservers (i don't do AWS or similar stuff)

- translation service

- pastebin

- nitter

- gothub

-nextcloud for pictures, address book from my phone (GrapheneOs)

used to self host email, but not getting blacklisted was pure pain - so I switched to fastmail.

I stopped mostly hosting things, using Syncthing to sync my files. Don't need a lot more.

I have a personal instance of Nextcloud running on a Raspberry Pi. As for self hosting other apps/tools, I'm just a bit too lazy to do that.

Yes. Expect "hosting" means I can access all kind of services via public SSH-port.

Email is one of the hardest things to self-host because of spam filtering.

yes ... everything i need.

and i'm doing this since a pretty long time-frame ... so i know what i do ;)

using linux in general - the debian gnu/linux distribution on x86/amd64 in particular ...