It really doesn’t, and certainly not more than running something on AWS.
In fact, hosting on cloud infrastructure adds layer of complexity.
I stand by my original assertion.
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artyom@piefed.social 5 months agoSelf hosting requires an immense amount of specialized knowledge and time…
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I got started self-hosting last week when I got ahold of a smal Lenovo ThinkCentre. I installed Proxmox on it and if I want to self-host something I just spin up a container or virtual machine on the Proxmox system. It’s so much easier than installing self-hosted projects on bare metal. And if you want to change things around then just disable or delete the container/vm and let Proxmox stay clean. If one container breaks the rest of the system will still function.
I could easily host Lemmy from home with Proxmox and a reverse proxy with my current setup. I am not going to because I am not interested in moderating a platform and all the responsibility that comes with it, but it’s very possible to do.
artyom@piefed.social 5 months ago
Cool?
DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The point was that self-hosting is not hard if you do it the right way. You claim it’s very hard and requires specialized knowledge. I don’t think it’s much different than hosting in the cloud.
artyom@piefed.social 5 months ago
I didn’t say it was “hard”. I said it requires specialized knowledge. Which it does. And which you’ve not disproven in any way.