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I used to love self-hosting until I got a family who relied on it. Then I realised I was a sysadamin at home and at work. Bare this in mind when you build somet

by cjk2 3y ago

I used to love self-hosting until I got a family who relied on it. Then I realised I was a sysadamin at home and at work. Bare this in mind when you build something, for if they come, they will depend on you. Everything is Apple/iCloud now. Fuck it - not my problem. I can go on holiday for two weeks now and if anything breaks, someone else will fix it.

Saris 3y ago
Yes I do my own stuff because I enjoy it, but family I try to set up with standard services that don't rely on me.
8fingerlouie 3y ago
I am in the same boat. Used to self host everything (except mail), and spent hours and hours keeping it patched and running. Some years ago i “did the math” on it, and it made absolutely no sense self hosting anything. Just keeping a small 4 bay NAS running costs around $20/month over 5 years (including cost of hardware, power alone is $10 at 40W) or around €25/month in Europe. Add to that, that when your user count exceeds 1, you suddenly have a SLA, so no more spare time for you, or a lot extra cash in hardware and power. These days I’ve thrown everything in the cloud, and just use the “big cloud” (iCloud/OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox/whatever). You main threat in a cloud scenario is loss of access to data (as opposed to loss of data in a self hosted environment), and i mitigate that by backing up data at home as well as with a different cloud provider, and have a 3-2-1 backup setup in place. All i have left at home now is a small energy efficient server that synchronizes cloud data locally in “real time”, and makes somewhat frequent backups of that data to another small server (Raspberry Pi) at home, as well as nightly backups to another cloud. The price of “running” it is less than the cost of power consumption of my old self hosted solution, and as you said, fuck it, i can go on holiday for two weeks and not worry about it. My server will alert me if stuff goes wrong, and Healthchecks.io will alert me if my server stops doing its stuff. As for privacy, i use Cryptomator to encrypt sensitive stuff. Cryptomator provides transparent encryption on both desktop and mobile platforms, and registers as a file provider in iOS, so it’s just a matter of selecting a different storage location , though I’m not overly paranoid, and most stuff just uploads “as is”.

by cjk2 3y ago

Saris 3y ago

Yes I do my own stuff because I enjoy it, but family I try to set up with standard services that don't rely on me.

8fingerlouie 3y ago

I am in the same boat. Used to self host everything (except mail), and spent hours and hours keeping it patched and running. Some years ago i “did the math” on it, and it made absolutely no sense self hosting anything. Just keeping a small 4 bay NAS running costs around $20/month over 5 years (including cost of hardware, power alone is $10 at 40W) or around €25/month in Europe. Add to that, that when your user count exceeds 1, you suddenly have a SLA, so no more spare time for you, or a lot extra cash in hardware and power. These days I’ve thrown everything in the cloud, and just use the “big cloud” (iCloud/OneDrive/Google Drive/Dropbox/whatever). You main threat in a cloud scenario is loss of access to data (as opposed to loss of data in a self hosted environment), and i mitigate that by backing up data at home as well as with a different cloud provider, and have a 3-2-1 backup setup in place. All i have left at home now is a small energy efficient server that synchronizes cloud data locally in “real time”, and makes somewhat frequent backups of that data to another small server (Raspberry Pi) at home, as well as nightly backups to another cloud. The price of “running” it is less than the cost of power consumption of my old self hosted solution, and as you said, fuck it, i can go on holiday for two weeks and not worry about it. My server will alert me if stuff goes wrong, and Healthchecks.io will alert me if my server stops doing its stuff. As for privacy, i use Cryptomator to encrypt sensitive stuff. Cryptomator provides transparent encryption on both desktop and mobile platforms, and registers as a file provider in iOS, so it’s just a matter of selecting a different storage location , though I’m not overly paranoid, and most stuff just uploads “as is”.