A few years ago (becoming many years ago now) I was a Linux loving sound engineer. I am also a guitar player with a family which means I have not been much of a guitar player for a while now.

Well, I recently got a new (to me) laptop to replace my Pinebook Pro and I have decided to dip my feet back into music production. With that in mind I feel I can add to the conversation by giving how things are going after a few years away.

Umami is a self-hostable web analtics system similar to Google Analytics. From my point-of-view it has several advantages compared to Google Analytics:

• Data Ownership: it is self-hosted so the data is stored on my own server
• Privacy: Google Analytics uses cookies, so can be problematic to comply with certain privacy laws such as GDPR.
• Simplicity: I am a sysadmin, not a data scientist. Umami’s interface is very simple compared to Google Analytics. Granted, this is partly because it does less, but it is fine for me.

This site is hosted on Gitlab Pages and I run Umami on my K3s which has an ingress controller accessible from outside.

I (and my sons) want to be able to host code and other text locally, so I decided to run on it on my K3s lab.

The first decision to make was which platform to use. I have used Gitlab for years at work and love it, but it is quite a beast to administer and run. I have used Gogs and Gitea in the past and they are far more lightweight than Gitlab, so I decided to use Forgejo