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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).

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[โ€“] terramot@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

what low-maintenance are you referring to? I have a server at home running proxmox and a container for docker. It hosts a website (caddy), website comments system (cusdis), sync, calendar, mail, mqtt, gps tracking, note taking, at one point i had home assistant but i dont have enough IoT to make use of it so i just stopped it. I check on stuff like once a month or maybe two months.

[โ€“] 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..)