Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

I need a local server and a remote one that are synced to confidentially self-host things and setting this up is a hassle I don’t want to take.

So my question is how safe is your setup? Are you still enthusiastic with it?

  • WhiteHotaru@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I have limited my usecases for selfhosting and thrown money at the problem. The usecases are:

    • image hosting and sharing with the family
    • backups of our family computers
    • digital file hosting
    • media hosting

    The last one is expendable. The first three are backed up into the cloud. I use a Synology, thus throwing money at the problem. Their cloud backup just works.

    Edit: use cases I do not self host are a mail server for example. The stress outweighs the 12€/year I pay for the service.