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I guess it depends on your point of view. I also self-host, but I do it because I want control of my data. I'm not the blogging type, but even if I were, I woul
by Sir_Substance 10y ago
I guess it depends on your point of view. I also self-host, but I do it because I want control of my data. I'm not the blogging type, but even if I were, I would not consider it a failure that my self-hosted blog went down under the weight of hacker news.
It's not like many other professionally hosted websites haven't done the same over the years, and my data remains in my control even when my website is crushed under the weight of enthusiastic visitors, so my self-hosting goal would be intact.
- adamweld 10y agoIsn't that... The definition of a failure?
- rascul 10y agoOnly if your goal is to support that amount of traffic.
- 23andwalnut 10y agoHe's saying his goal is controlling his data, not necessarily 100% uptime, so even if the site ends up going down, he still retained control of his data, and therefore did not fail on the metric that is actually important to him.
- iguessthislldo 10y agoMaybe if you specialize in hosting large traffic sites, but if the content got enough attention to cause server failure, then it had to be at least moderately successful content.