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It would take one hell of an incentive to make someone with * No previous tech knowledge * A full-time job * No external help learn systemd, or how to setup
by lou1306 5y ago
It would take one hell of an incentive to make someone with
* No previous tech knowledge
* A full-time job
* No external help
learn systemd, or how to setup and maintain a web server, or whatever.
Individuals may still self-host of course, but I'm skeptical people will do it en masse anytime soon.
After all, if the entry barrier weren't so high, we wouldn't have an entire service industry that does this for you (SquareSpace, Wix, Substack...)
- jethro_tell 5y agoI think most of the people on r/selfhosted aren't super technical. Lots of them install a snap or docker container with a web UI for self hosting and they are off to the races.
- majewsky 5y agoLooking at the /r/selfhosted crowd comes with some serious survivorship bias though. It's not considering the (potentially large) group of people who would like to self-host, but don't even make it to /r/selfhosted or similar forums.
- jethro_tell 5y agoSure, but let's be real, if your going to slef host you'll need to be able to do a bit of that. Would be nice if there were more little appliances that handle stuff like this so someone could just buy it at best buy or whatever and plug it in next to the router.