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#SelfHosting community, how do you get notifications about your projects? (caneandable.social)

submitted 1 month ago by RareBird15@caneandable.social to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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#SelfHosting community, how do you get notifications about your projects?

I'm setting up a couple of #BASH #Scripts to back things up and notify me about events on my #RaspberryPi, but I've hit some roadblocks. Here's my situation:

- I know #email is one option, but I'm not set up for it yet. My domain is on porkbun.com, but its nameservers point to vultr.com, where my #WordPress site is hosted. The Vultr server is managed by a friend, so I don't have access to add #DNSRecords for platforms like #Brevo. I've asked him to add the records but am waiting on that.

- I've been using a #Discord webhook, but I've run into issues with rate limiting when scripts send too many messages. Long messages also cause errors.

Now, I'm exploring other ways to send notifications. Does anyone have suggestions for reliable methods or tools that work well in self-hosted setups?

#Linux #Tech #Technology #BASHScripts #SelfHosted #Notifications
@selfhost @selfhosted @linux @selfhosting

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[–] jdw@the.mayhem.academy 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@RareBird15 @selfhost @selfhosted @linux @selfhosting With so many limitations in your system design, I don’t really feel you’re “self hosting”. You’re really just using a bunch of things that you don’t appear to have a lot of control over, which is basically all the limitations you get from _not_ self hosting.

What do you mean by your server is not “set up” for email? Simply installing sendmail should give you what you need. Emails will likely end up in your spam folder but you should be able to manage that within your email client (whitelist, create a rule to keep it in the inbox, etc).

Any other solution is more complex and probably going to even less likely to work for you.

[–] RareBird15@caneandable.social 0 points 1 month ago

@jdw @selfhost @selfhosted @linux @selfhosting Not sure what you mean. I have a Raspberry Pi with MiniFlux, LinkAce, and a bunch of other stuff on it. The only thing I'm not hosting is the WordPress site.