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I am not sure where you live, but in many places you can't host your own servers from your room because of ISP restrictions. Also, there are not a lot of place

I am not sure where you live, but in many places you can't host your own servers from your room because of ISP restrictions. Also, there are not a lot of places where you can find data centers that rent servers out for personal uses.

jmiserez 8y ago
Even then it's only a question of money, and you can keep local backups without having to fear it'll all be gone tomorrow.
laumars 8y ago
> I am not sure where you live, but in many places you can't host your own servers from your room because of ISP restrictions. We have those restrictions in the UK but I've never once known any ISP act upon them. But in any case, I did also list other options that wasn't reliant on your ISP as well. > Also, there are not a lot of places where you can find data centers that rent servers out for personal uses. Sure there are. Hosting providers don't care if you're a business or private individual - they just want your cash. There's even serval places in Europe where you can send them a Raspberry Pi and they'd host that for you (obviously for a monthly fee). There really isn't a shortage of places to host bare metal nor VMs.
- kkarakk 8y ago
  >but I've never once known any ISP act upon them what happens when ISPs do start acting on them? they do in india.court ordered blocks on whole ranges of IPs
  - laumars 8y ago
    At risk of sounding like a broken record: > I did also list other options that wasn't reliant on your ISP as well. However that aside, you could nitpick solutions until the cows come home but it’s unproductive because self hosting is still more resilient from takedowns than a SaaS solution. And that’s what matters. Self hosting gives you options that you simply don’t have with SaaS. Frankly, I’m amazing anyone is even arguing against that point in the first place.

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I am not sure where you live, but in many places you can't host your own servers from your room because of ISP restrictions. Also, there are not a lot of place

by paraditedc 8y ago

jmiserez 8y ago
Even then it's only a question of money, and you can keep local backups without having to fear it'll all be gone tomorrow.
laumars 8y ago
> I am not sure where you live, but in many places you can't host your own servers from your room because of ISP restrictions. We have those restrictions in the UK but I've never once known any ISP act upon them. But in any case, I did also list other options that wasn't reliant on your ISP as well. > Also, there are not a lot of places where you can find data centers that rent servers out for personal uses. Sure there are. Hosting providers don't care if you're a business or private individual - they just want your cash. There's even serval places in Europe where you can send them a Raspberry Pi and they'd host that for you (obviously for a monthly fee). There really isn't a shortage of places to host bare metal nor VMs.
- kkarakk 8y ago
  >but I've never once known any ISP act upon them what happens when ISPs do start acting on them? they do in india.court ordered blocks on whole ranges of IPs
  - laumars 8y ago
    At risk of sounding like a broken record: > I did also list other options that wasn't reliant on your ISP as well. However that aside, you could nitpick solutions until the cows come home but it’s unproductive because self hosting is still more resilient from takedowns than a SaaS solution. And that’s what matters. Self hosting gives you options that you simply don’t have with SaaS. Frankly, I’m amazing anyone is even arguing against that point in the first place.