Mastodawn

I self-host a lot of stuff. Nearly everything that I use. FOSS and self-hosting is a massive part of my computing experience.

I love reading about people enjoying / exploring self-hosting stuff.

I struggle when people advocate "just self-host it", without giving due consideration to the costs, risks, security considerations, and so on.

I know that I've posted this a few times now, but this discussion seems to pop up quite a lot. So:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

#SelfHosting #FOSS #blog

'Self-host it' is not the answer

I'm going out on a limb a bit here.

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Tom Stoneham

@neil Great piece. I am a year into self-hosting and did it entirely for the learning experience.

I quickly realised that I wasn't confident enough in my security to use Nextcloud or Vaultwarden and am aware that I have probably made my home network vulnerable to a concerted attack.

So it has ended up very much a small scale hobby, not hosting anything confidential or essential to day-to-day functioning (where I pay for Proton, Signal, Bitwarden etc.).