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My Self-Hosted Life "Error establishing a database connection" I think this may have been one of the more unintentionally ironic and hilarious blog posts Ive
by bnchrch 10y ago
My Self-Hosted Life
"Error establishing a database connection"
I think this may have been one of the more unintentionally ironic and hilarious blog posts Ive seen in awhile.
While I run my own server for some personal projects I'd never advise people to do it unless they absolutely have to. The maintenance, security updates and embarrassing events like these for the most part are not worth it.
- ge96 10y agoStatic IP address too
- lucb1e 10y agoJust as many non-self hosted Wordpress installs go down. It's Wordpress that's extremely slow. Edit: Besides, the article mentions "the VPS is one thing and is really used for critical services or stuff that needs to be accessible to the wider Internet (like this site), but the real magic happens on my home servers". That isn't the self-hosted part anyway. /end of edit. > I'd never advise people to do it unless they absolutely have to. I'd compare it to work. When doing a project for a client, all else being equal, you'd rather have them pay a bit more so you have more time to develop a great product. Rush jobs are never fun and you usually have to cut corners. If you can make your code nice, it can be made flexible and neatly extendable. Same for hosting: yeah it takes a little more time than getting shared hosting, but it gives you so much freedom to install and configure your own software. Save for perhaps mail servers, it's pretty much always worth it in the long run if you can afford it in the short run.