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I don't really know what to think for big, critical applications because I've never had to manage one myself. I can agree that looks very difficult and time-con

I don't really know what to think for big, critical applications because I've never had to manage one myself. I can agree that looks very difficult and time-consuming, and that indeed companies devoted to the sole task of maintaining all the stack up and running are amazing. However, for small-scale projects, personal blogs or website, I really like the idea of self-hosting. Knowing that all the data are in my home is reassuring (apart from the fact that my house could catch fire). (I realized that you're one of the co-creators of Django; thank you very much for this masterpiece)

fragmede 5y ago
> apart from the fact that my house could catch fire Your house feels like a fortress, until something happens to you or someone you know. Not just a natural disaster, like a hurricane, tornado, flood, or earthquake, but small disasters too. House fire, as you mentioned, or having your house burgled, some crazy power company glitch, or something as mundane as a child with a cup of water in exactly the wrong place. Even if you are meticulous enough to drive backups off-site backups, that somewhere is probably close enough that it's possible for a natural disaster to take out your house and your backup site. Encrypt your data and save it somewhere geographically far away, if it's really important to you. It's doable manually but for everybody else, imo, an online service (eg Dropbox or Google Drive) is easier, which means it's more likely to happen and not fall off the bottom of the Todo list.
- habeebtc 5y ago
  I have thought about this some. I do prefer having local copies of everything, because I don't trust The Cloud. Malicious actors can get your account shut down, and then all your stuff is gone, locked up and the key thrown away. My solution has been to run a RAID 1 NAS device for all my local stuff (including all my media I want to stream in the house - nice having movies and TV when internet is down). 4TB drives, rated for NAS usage. Important documents, and sentimental photos (many GB's worth from the last few decades) I periodically back up onto an external SSD and put in my fire safe with physical documents of importance.
  - jdlshore 5y ago
    FYI, fire safes aren’t necessarily waterproof. They’ll protect your documents from the fire but not the firefighters’ water, or the drop through the burned out floor to the basement. Mine, for example, requires an additional treatment to be waterproof. Something to keep in mind if you haven’t already. (I keep my backups in three places: local drives, safe deposit box rotated quarterly, and BackBlaze. I’ve only ever needed the first, but I feel safer knowing I have the other two.)
    - habeebtc 5y ago
      Crap. I guess I had not thought about water proofing. Probably important as I love next to a river.

fragmede 5y ago

> apart from the fact that my house could catch fire Your house feels like a fortress, until something happens to you or someone you know. Not just a natural disaster, like a hurricane, tornado, flood, or earthquake, but small disasters too. House fire, as you mentioned, or having your house burgled, some crazy power company glitch, or something as mundane as a child with a cup of water in exactly the wrong place. Even if you are meticulous enough to drive backups off-site backups, that somewhere is probably close enough that it's possible for a natural disaster to take out your house and your backup site. Encrypt your data and save it somewhere geographically far away, if it's really important to you. It's doable manually but for everybody else, imo, an online service (eg Dropbox or Google Drive) is easier, which means it's more likely to happen and not fall off the bottom of the Todo list.

habeebtc 5y ago
I have thought about this some. I do prefer having local copies of everything, because I don't trust The Cloud. Malicious actors can get your account shut down, and then all your stuff is gone, locked up and the key thrown away. My solution has been to run a RAID 1 NAS device for all my local stuff (including all my media I want to stream in the house - nice having movies and TV when internet is down). 4TB drives, rated for NAS usage. Important documents, and sentimental photos (many GB's worth from the last few decades) I periodically back up onto an external SSD and put in my fire safe with physical documents of importance.
- jdlshore 5y ago
  FYI, fire safes aren’t necessarily waterproof. They’ll protect your documents from the fire but not the firefighters’ water, or the drop through the burned out floor to the basement. Mine, for example, requires an additional treatment to be waterproof. Something to keep in mind if you haven’t already. (I keep my backups in three places: local drives, safe deposit box rotated quarterly, and BackBlaze. I’ve only ever needed the first, but I feel safer knowing I have the other two.)
  - habeebtc 5y ago
    Crap. I guess I had not thought about water proofing. Probably important as I love next to a river.