Some don’t have the capital or spare parts lying around to build their own on premises server. A VPS is an easy, secure way to get started in the hobby. No need to gatekeep.
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autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lmao, people out here on VPSs acting like they went from renting a car to owning it, when in reality, they just rented the tires and the steering wheel.
OP needs end-to-end encrypted remote backup.
OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That don’t stop others seeing what your doing on their computers. If you don’t care, no one’s stopping you.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t downvote ya but… Server at home, VPS in the cloud…samey samey. The end goal is the same: Privacy, security, and anonymity. I don’t know why people out here are going on about pedantic definitions. Selfhosting isn’t an exclusive club with a homelab prerequisite. It’s open to anyone regardless of the equipment they use.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Proviacy? Anonymity? lmao, they see everything you do on THEIR computer.
myplacedk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I own my data. I own my installation. That’s what I care about.
Why would I want to own the hardware, when it’s in an inaccessible building far away.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
We host most stuff at home, and then additionally some services at Hetzner on an (auctioned) root server. Bloody nice to get really good hardware for cheap, plus unlimited data with either 1 or 10Gbit synchronous network speed, a dedicated IPv4,…
Stuff like my mail server lives there because it HAS to be available, and doing it at home, and doing it well, is next to impossible.
I’m planning a nix hydra + cache server, which will probably also live on the Hetzner server, simply because it’ll have pretty intense jobs to run a lot of the time and I’m not a fan of having the noise of spun-up fans at home.
Both solutions have their place, is what I’m saying / agreeing.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, mail can be end-to-end encrypted but they got bros out here raw dogging their VPSs.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 weeks ago
Not a VPS.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Their computer, their data.