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The intersection between selfhosted and nosurf by kdokdo in c/main@selfhosted.forum

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

Yeah that's a good point about updates, but what about security vulnerabilities...

About templates, it's true that my setup is far from being one-click-deployable, but I feel like it takes even more effort to make it as a template?

I do have time and mental energy, I am just starting to be less interested in spending them on server administration... (but I know that it's a compromise anyway, cuz using the normie services has a hidden cost on the long term)

The intersection between selfhosted and nosurf by kdokdo in c/main@selfhosted.forum

[-] kdokdo@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

I'm referring to: updating the software (and making sure with the changelog that there is no breaking change I have to adapt to), dealing with issues (it's not the first time my server is down and I have to investigate..), and occasionally do migration (if a software becomes abandonned, a tech becomes deprecated..)

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The intersection between selfhosted and nosurf (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by kdokdo@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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Hello everyone,

One thing I'm sure is in common between self-hosters and people over at r/nosurf is our aversion to the popular big services like Google, Facebook...

I started self-hosting a few years ago because I was sick of depending on big corps, but over time I started getting sick of anything related to technology (even though I'm a dev lol). Recently I've been experiencing downtime on my server and I still haven't figured out the cause, and it's kinda making me feel that I am a slave to my setup, the same way I was a slave to the big corps.

I was wondering if any of you felt something similar, and how would you design a self-hosted setup that's as low-maintenance as possible (I'm already using a VPS instead of a home server to reduce maintenance).