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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Pete Prodoehl 🍕Feb 24

@neil "Self-hosting requires a heck of a lot of privilege."

This can be true, but it's easier (and probably cheaper) than ever before.

And I'm doing it mostly to just say no to corporations getting my data.

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Epic Null Feb 24

@rasterweb @neil Well... it was cheaper until a few companies decided to BUY ALL THE HARDWARE WITH MONEY THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE

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Pete Prodoehl 🍕

@Epic_Null @neil I was lucky to get a free 10 year old PC that can hold 8 SATA drives last year and I dropped in some eBay RAM along with some used 4TB drives. I don’t want to think about what the setup would cost this year.