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> Someone on Hacker News or Reddit is shouting: "Just use the cloud? Nobody is capable of maintaining a Linux server." I like to host stuff from my house, and
by skylurk 1y ago
> Someone on Hacker News or Reddit is shouting: "Just use the cloud? Nobody is capable of maintaining a Linux server."
I like to host stuff from my house, and take a sick pleasure in not caring when my self-hosted personal projects fall offline. This is the luxury of personal projects.
For something other people are paying for, I (too) would rather not have to think about tripped breakers or ISP maintenance knocking out the service.
- alexellisuk 1y agoThen read the next bit :) > Now, if something is public facing and making revenue (or risks revenue/reputation by going down), I will absolutely run that on a popular cloud VM, or on Hetzner's bare-metal offering split up into various microVMs. If possible, I'll run it on a CDN - like my blog, a homepage, or a documentation site.
- skylurk 1y ago> Then read the next bit :) I am concurring with the article, sorry if it was not obvious. Added a (too) now :)