Kancept

I like self-hosting my stuff, owning my data, determining my privacy surface area, learning and keeping my admin skills up to date.

Some days, though....I'm just tired of being a sysadmin and want to just sit down and have all the little things done and not have to worry about cluster health and such. Some days I'm just tired of it all and want nothing to do with it.

It's just crazy corpo wants you to pay them to host stuff AND sell your data...

#selfhosting

Jun 18 at 12:09amWeb
Show threadkajer4d ago
@Kancept me today as I am setting up a very very niche forum on my own hardware in a datacenter.
Show threadMartin Guay 👨‍💻🌈🎮📱🍁4d ago
@Kancept the endless SaaS and Subscription services... I'm done with most of them. Unfortunately, some are unavoidable.
Show threadKancept4d ago

@MartinGuay @kajer for me today it was the chain...nextcloud and Vaultwarden, but also wanting to have an identity server setup but then needing certs and then tailscale/netbird, so then needing SSO/OpenID...just one thing after another. And it's all docker/podman, so then it's network share mapping....

Ugh

Show threadKancept4d ago
@MartinGuay I've done fairly well this year or two getting rid of all the subscriptions. But I tell you what, sometimes just thinking about how much I didn't have to think about it when I had my Apple One+ family subscription...
Show threadMartin Guay 👨‍💻🌈🎮📱🍁3d ago
@Kancept fair enough on that.
Show threadNagaram4d ago

@Kancept

I think this would be way easier if I was willing to spend good money on new equipment.

Show threadKancept4d ago
@Nagaram yeah, that's always a kicker too. It's money for the corpos one way or another. And the neverending pile of spare parts and equipment "just in case".
Show threadnevarro4d ago
@Kancept Maybe that’s because many self-hosters approach it in an overkill-way!? I run services at home on one server, with plenty of power and storage, while balancing power consumption. Services I host run, there’s almost no breaking changes when updating (there were two that I remember, with Immich).
I never actually got the need for Proxmox, etc. I run backups, and I’d prefer replacing hardware and restoring data seldomly over dealing with cluster nodes and their health.
Show threadKancept3d ago

@nevarro I agree with the overkill, but also see a lot of self-hosted also coming from a skills development side. Like it's a two-part problem. It's a home lab as well as a self-hosting but, or it's turned into that as things developed.

Mine was originally my homelab, as I come from a DevOps career path. It's scaled way back from what it originally was and now I'm down to my NAS and a single Lenovo m900 tiny. Even the Tiny could probably go as Unraid on my NAS seems to be running the containers without an issue. The N100 processor seems to be quite a rockstar.

Show threadMichael 🤨3d ago
@Kancept Currently reading this while ignoring my broken Nextcloud instance 🙈🙉🙊
Show threadsn0n3d ago
@thePurpleMonkey @Kancept broken?