Saving Thousands With Listmonk

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I just put up a new video about how to set up Listmonk for your parish mailing list. Self hosting unironically saves my parish about $750 annually and I get the added flexibility that comes with having total control of the server.

Some things that are probably easier to copy paste than emulate from the screen:

/etc/systemd/system/listmonk.service

[Unit]
Description=listmonk
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
AssertFileIsExecutable=/usr/local/bin/listmonk

[Service]
User=listmonk
Group=listmonk

Restart=always
RestartSec=10

ExecStart=listmonk --config /etc/listmonk/config.toml

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

and also…

/etc/nginx/sites-available/listmonk

server {
        listen 80 ;
        listen [::]:80 ;
        server_name listmonk.yourdomain.tld ;
        index index.html ;

        location / {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
                include proxy_params;
        }
}