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Virtually everything in my self-hosted tech stack: Web, mail, specialty apps for CRM and project management... all of it. I like the control and I like tinkeri

Virtually everything in my self-hosted tech stack: Web, mail, specialty apps for CRM and project management... all of it. I like the control and I like tinkering. But as I've become busier, I realize how much revenue-producing/move-the-ball-forward time I've lost and am still losing by doing all of this myself.

europeanguy 4y ago
There's people who use hammers because they have nails that need hammering, and there's people who use hammers because they enjoy hammering.
- RajT88 4y ago
  The folks who just love hammering and teach themselves in their spare time, may well come across an opportunity to hammer professionally. In which case, nobody will care how they got their skills, whether it was on the job or not. Just that they are really good at hammering and can prove it.
  - europeanguy 4y ago
    You missed my point. I don't disagree that as long as you're good at hammering, it doesn't matter if you learned it by hammering on the job or because you love hammering so much that you kept doing it by yourself. My point was that some people don't have hammering as a goal. Some people's goal is to make money, and some times that's best achieved by hammering, some times that's best achieved by sawing. But the people who hammer because they like it will try to hammer even when sawing would be more effective.
VTimofeenko 4y ago
I am spending an inordinate amount of time on my homelab (and the todo list does not seem to get any smaller). But on the other hand this activity gives me a ton of experience that I could not get doing $DAYJOB, and this experience comes extremely handy from time to time.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  100%. What are you running?
  - VTimofeenko 4y ago
    - Unbound+nsd for all dns needs - Tiny Tiny RSS - Nextcloud - Docspell - Gitea - Youtrack - Prometheus - Minio - Set of wireguard mesh networks for management, monitoring, service access, backups Almost everything is managed through a single Nix flake with deploy-rs and agenix
    - gwbrooks 4y ago
      ::::partial overlap high-five:::: All of my stuff is public-facing and needs more reliability than I can provide via home internet, so I have a rented 1U in a datacenter. Proxmoxing my way through about 20 Wordpress sites, mail infrastructure to handle 100k messages a month for a couple of organizations, Gitlab (would have preferred Youtrack!), Nextcloud, FreshRSS, Mautic, Bookstack, Nextcloud, etc. Really want to dive into Minio on another machine for backup storage. EDIT: See what I did in that last sentence? More tinkering! Argh!
      - VTimofeenko 4y ago
        Minio has been great IME. I have set it up to replicate the backups into Backblaze B2. I do recommend managing it via terraform from the get go as it will save you quite some time later and lower the wtfs/minute metric.

europeanguy 4y ago

There's people who use hammers because they have nails that need hammering, and there's people who use hammers because they enjoy hammering.

RajT88 4y ago
The folks who just love hammering and teach themselves in their spare time, may well come across an opportunity to hammer professionally. In which case, nobody will care how they got their skills, whether it was on the job or not. Just that they are really good at hammering and can prove it.
- europeanguy 4y ago
  You missed my point. I don't disagree that as long as you're good at hammering, it doesn't matter if you learned it by hammering on the job or because you love hammering so much that you kept doing it by yourself. My point was that some people don't have hammering as a goal. Some people's goal is to make money, and some times that's best achieved by hammering, some times that's best achieved by sawing. But the people who hammer because they like it will try to hammer even when sawing would be more effective.

VTimofeenko 4y ago

I am spending an inordinate amount of time on my homelab (and the todo list does not seem to get any smaller). But on the other hand this activity gives me a ton of experience that I could not get doing $DAYJOB, and this experience comes extremely handy from time to time.

lostlogin 4y ago
100%. What are you running?
- VTimofeenko 4y ago
  - Unbound+nsd for all dns needs - Tiny Tiny RSS - Nextcloud - Docspell - Gitea - Youtrack - Prometheus - Minio - Set of wireguard mesh networks for management, monitoring, service access, backups Almost everything is managed through a single Nix flake with deploy-rs and agenix
  - gwbrooks 4y ago
    ::::partial overlap high-five:::: All of my stuff is public-facing and needs more reliability than I can provide via home internet, so I have a rented 1U in a datacenter. Proxmoxing my way through about 20 Wordpress sites, mail infrastructure to handle 100k messages a month for a couple of organizations, Gitlab (would have preferred Youtrack!), Nextcloud, FreshRSS, Mautic, Bookstack, Nextcloud, etc. Really want to dive into Minio on another machine for backup storage. EDIT: See what I did in that last sentence? More tinkering! Argh!
    - VTimofeenko 4y ago
      Minio has been great IME. I have set it up to replicate the backups into Backblaze B2. I do recommend managing it via terraform from the get go as it will save you quite some time later and lower the wtfs/minute metric.