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What’s the point of replacing one corporation with another (especially if you have to maintain the server yourself)? Host it on cheap hardware at home, with pl
by aborsy 4y ago
What’s the point of replacing one corporation with another (especially if you have to maintain the server yourself)?
Host it on cheap hardware at home, with plenty of RAM and CPU. If the power is off for 15min, that doesn’t matter for personal use.
As a plus, you can host it in plaintext (or at least, load the LUKS key), so that applications can index your data, allowing a lot of cool stuff. You can lock it in down more strictly, tailoring it to your specific environment.
- mistrial9 4y agolove this - my ISP does not love this
- Seattle3503 4y ago> What’s the point of replacing one corporation with another (especially if you have to maintain the server yourself)? I dont think most people have issues with corperations in principle. It is a few particular companies people want to avoid. Hosting is commoditized; if your host becomes a problem you can migrate. This isn't as easy with Google.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> Hosting is commoditized; if your host becomes a problem you can migrate. Not so when you are using custom offerings from a hosting company. OP specifically mentions "Nextcloud office suites". How will he migrate that?
- danielheath 4y agoInstall it somewhere else and move the data directory across? Nextcloud is foss, right?
- jtode 4y agoYah it's just a plugin, an advertised feature if you will. Whatever rented presence I have for a public IP will be treated the same way one treats a container (might end up being a container, who knows...) - persistent config and storage data is stored outside the container and invoked on launch, and similarly, I will have all config and storage backed up on my local server as well. So as they say, if I decide I don't like my hosting company, I will be ready to simply shut them down and open a new account elsewhere, apply config, "restore" backups to new bucket/blockstore if need be, done.