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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Dave Feb 24

@neil and you gotta hope the tools you’re using is actually secure

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/3aAWM0jLJv

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Mark Gjøl

@rail @neil I self host exactly so my data can remain in my relatively closed intranet (that is, completely NAT'ed). There's still a password in place, but to be honest, it would be trivial for an intruder to take over everything.