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It just sounds like all of the self-hosted services you were using were crap to be honest. They still are more or less. IRC and photos should have a one-click
by QasimK 8y ago
It just sounds like all of the self-hosted services you were using were crap to be honest. They still are more or less.
IRC and photos should have a one-click button to set up encrypted backups to a location of your choosing, local, remote, cloud. Ideally, of course, you’d configure this location once and then all apps would automatically use it.
As for physical games, this is not a comparable example (physical self-managed vs virtual self-managed). In this case, you’d virtually back up the disk, and if you can’t because of DRM or something, then you don’t really own it.
Your comment on self-hosted + paid-hosted I especially agree with and is one that I’ve quite recently also came to the conclusion of.
- scrollaway 8y ago> It just sounds like all of the self-hosted services you were using were crap to be honest. No... they just match up with expectations of what I said: You need backup solutions. Those backup solutions need to work, need to be recoverable. And when a disaster happens, let's say there's a fire at my house, the last thing I want to be doing is spending hours recovering backup. That's a sysadmin's job, not mine. I don't know why you say IRC "should have a one-click button to set up encrypted backups to a location of your choosing" -- that's not the case of any existing service to my knowledge, possibly not even for photos. And I also wouldn't expect every single self-hosted service developer out there to have to set up something like that, especially given that the development of such a thing requires pretty extensive sysadmin knowledge and self-hosted projects tend to be open-source-volunteer ones. I'd love to have more things work like git though. Easy mirroring. Decentralized truth. In some way, IPFS, but not for like the entire internet; just for select projects.