Neil BrownFeb 24

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.

Show threadahnlakFeb 24

@neil I think self-hosting is a bit like doing your own car servicing.

Sure, you can do it and if you know what you're doing you'll probably be happy and saving yourself some money - but unless you *actually* know what you're doing, many things can and will come back to bite you in the ass 😉

Hell, I *do* know what I'm doing and I'm very happy to pay someone else to do quite a lot of things I could, theoretically, do myself.

Show threadEugene  
@ahnlak @neil I like this metaphor! I don't have a car, but I have a bike and like to make a lot of maintenance by myself. And this definitely looks like self-hosting â€” if you able to have fun with wrenches and grease, then you will do it yourself and will have fun. Otherwise, no fun 
Feb 24 at 12:55pmWeb
Show threadtheothertomFeb 25
@evgandr @ahnlak @neil You could extend it too - happy enough doing maintenance for my own bike because I can fix any issues myself, but less confident when working on my family's because they need it to work perfectly to get to work/school.