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What service one should NOT self host (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by SuperWill5633@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Like the title says, I'm new to self hosting world. 😀 while I was researching, I found out that many people dissuaded me to self host email server. Just too complicated and hard to manage. What other services that you think we should just go use the currently available providers in the market and why? 🙂thank you

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[-] fourstepper@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I try to NOT self-host any service that:

  1. Is open-source and provides a hosted solution
  2. Doesn't have some technical/price requirement (like a media library/photo library where you pay per GB) to use the mentioned hosted version
    • if this is the case, I donate to the project I'm using instead
[-] Simplixt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Do you have an example?

"Open Source + hosted" always involves trust, as you can only look into the Github repository, not if the running hosted application is running identically.

Only exception: It's an E2EE encrypted solution, and everything else happens client-side (example: Bitwarden)

[-] fourstepper@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, you do have to have some trust in such services. Some of the ones I use:

  1. Miniflux for RSS
  2. Migadu for e-mail and calendar
  3. Signal for messaging
  4. Mastodon for, well, Mastodon
  5. GitHub for Git hosting and CI/CD
  6. Bitwarden that you've mentioned I also buy hosted

Read my reasoning here, if interested

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