Digitalcarnage - A self hosted server
digitalcarnage.co.uk a self-hosted, homelab server based in the United Kingdom.

Start Here
The server software used is the freely available Yunohost server software, which uses Debian Linux. Several applications, some public and some private, are hosted on this server. See this page for the full list of applications currently installed.
The hardware is a Dell small form factor (SFF) 7020 desktop PC with an i7 4770 processor, 16 GB of RAM and a 2TB hard drive. (An old-fashioned spinner!). There is a nightly mail and data backup, as well as a full backup on weekends. The backup is a simple cron job that performs a backup to an external 1 GB solid-state drive. A 1 GB drive is used as a second backup using Restic.
There are several domains hosted on the server that are registered through iWantmyname. See the full list of domains here in this chapter.
For details about installing Yunohost and creating your self-hosted server, you can just jump straight in here to get started.
Digitalcarnage Base System
OS
Kernel
Linux Name
Yunohost Version
 Debian 12.14
6.1.0-51-amd64
Bookworm
12.1.40.1 (stable)
Digitalcarnage's current server status can be found here. You can see the server's health here at Cronitor.
Server status uses the Uptime Kuma monitoring tool hosted by PikaPod. It’s always best to have your monitoring service not on your own server!
The full setup includes a Raspberry Pi 4, which is used for "local" external access by admins, and selected users only use WireGuard as a VPN to allow “local” access to the Yunohost server. Real VNC Server is also installed on the Pi.

Server Applications
There are several applications for use on this server; the public can use some of them, but for the most part, they are for private use. However, an account can be created on those apps by asking the admin to create one for you. SELF-REGISTRATION IS DISABLED on most apps for obvious reasons!
Application Name
Type of Application
Link to Author
Link on this server
Notes
Backrest
Restic frontend
Backrest
Backrest
Admins only
Bludit
Flat File CMS
Bludit
Bludit
Del Jones website
Bookstack
Document Wiki
Bookstack
Bookstack
This server's wiki
Collabora Server
Office suite server
Collabora
Collabora
Nextcloud Office
InvoiceNinja
Invoicing
InvoiceNinja
InvoiceNinja
PRIVATE
Jellyfin
Media server
Jellyfin
Jellyfin
You must have an account
LinkStack
Contact sharing
LinkStack
LinkStack
Del Jones' contact details
Lychee
Photo Gallery App
Lychee
Lychee
DJLD Capture gallery
My WebApp
Non YNH app installer
My WebApp
My WebApp
Used for DJ bio
Navidrome
Music and Radio Server
Navidrome
Navidrome
You must have an account
Nextcloud
Collaboration platform
Nextcloud
Nextcloud
You must have an account
Piwigo
Photo management
Piwigo
Piwigo
You must have an account
PhpMyAdmin
MySQL Admin
phpMyAdmin
PhpAdmin
Admin access only
Pure Blog
Derek Jones Blog
Pure Blog
Pure Blog
Blogging app
Pure Comments
Comments app
Pure Comments
Pure Comments
Admins only
Roundcube
Web-based email
Roundcube
Roundcube
You must have an account
Shaarli
Bookmark manager
Shaarli
Shaarli
You must have an account
Vaultwarden
Password Manager
Vaultwarden
Vaultwarden
You must have an account
WordPress
Blog/Website publishing
WordPress
WordPress
Multiple instances installed

Domains Hosted
There are several domains hosted on this server, all of which are registered through iwantmyname. There is one domain that is registered with DynDNS courtesy of Yunohost. When you install a Yunohost server, you receive one free domain. Click here for more details about installing your free domain once you have installed a Yunohost server.
DOMAINS (and sub-domains) HOSTED ON THIS SERVER
Domains & sub-domains
digitalcarnage.co.uk
links.digitalcarnage.co.uk
office.digitalcarnage.co.uk
cloud.digitalcarnage.co.uk
derekjones.net
blog.derekjones.net
comments.derekjones.net
derekjoneslighting.com
accounts.derekjoneslighting.com
vantours.co.uk
previous.vantours.co.uk
Yunohost/dynDNS domain
casper.nohost.me

Backups and howto
This Yunohost server is backed up onto two separate USB drives, both of which are on-premises. Several attempts have been made to perform an off-premises backup using both Borg and Restic, but I have found them to be more difficult than they’re worth, so I am doing backups on-site using the built-in Yunohost backup and recovery service and Restic, both to their own USB drives.
Drive 1 (Drive label: YNHRECOVERY)
This backup uses the built-in Yunohost backup and recovery service. A simple cron job is used, detailing the time and what is to be backed up.
FULL BACKUP
Time: Midnight every Wednesday and Sunday
What: EVERYTHING. (accept multimedia items like videos, photos and music) This is a full backup. Everything is checked off in the Yunohost backup service. There is a .nobackup file in the folder /home/yunohost.multimedia. This blank file prevents this folder from being backed up.
OTHER ITEMS BACKED UP
Time: 4 AM EVERY day.
What: User home folders and emails.
Drive 2 (Drive label: DATARECOVERY)
Restic is a backup service that can be installed from the CLI or through the Yunohost application catalogue. On this server, it has been installed using the CLI.
The backup used to be a cron job, but recently the excellent Restic GUI, Backrest, has been installed and is now in use. Using this app, you can create Restic repos, view and download the contents of a repo, set the times of the backup and set retention.
ALL items in the folder - /home/yunohost.multimedia are backed up to drive 2 DATARECOVERY
Time: 3 AM every Saturday
What: /home/yunohost.multimedia
Below I have kept some useful Restic commands, just in case...! Well, you never know...
Where is the Restic app located? Type: which restic will show you where the app is located on your drive.
Where is my Restic repository located? The Restic repository is located at media/datarecovery/restic. This is a symbolic link from the Restic directory on the main drive. The physical drive is a USB spinner labelled “datarecovery”. 
What is the latest installed Restic version?
Type: restic version. This will tell you the current version, which right now is 0.19.1 (Note: The Restic version is not the same version that appears in Backrest as shown on the top left corner of the app, which at the time of writing is v1.14.1)
Can I update Restic? Type: restic self-update. If there is an update available, it will be downloaded and installed.
Has the backup happened? Type: restic check -r /media/datarecovery/restic
How do I change the backup schedule? Type: crontab -u root -e Nano will open, and you can edit the time and contents of your backup. This cron job now runs the yunohost backup to drive 1 'YNHRECOVERY' only.
Can I see the snapshots? Type: restic -r /media/datarecovery/restic snapshots
Can I see the contents of the snapshots? Type: restic ls (snapshotID here) --repo /media/datarecovery/restic
Can I mount the snapshot? Type: restic -r /media/datarecovery/restic mount /mnt/restic
NOTE: For most of the above commands, you will require the restic password that you set up when you created your repository, etc.

Nextcloud Office
The Nextcloud instance hosted here, and their users have access to the online Collobara office suite. The Collobara Server is located in the digitalcarnage.co.uk domain as office.digitalcarnage.co.uk.

Multipule instances installed
This server has multiple instances of WordPress installed.

Worpress - Multipule instances
This server contains three instances of the popular but sometimes frustrating app, WordPress.
Derek Jones Lighting Design - The website for Derek Jones Lighting Design.
The Vantours travel blog - The Vantours travel blog is a travel website.
A previous version of the Vantours travel blog. This WordPress site was previously hosted on a QNAP NAS that went horribly wrong, but was recovered and now forms part of the vantours.co.uk website