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).
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)