Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 week agoI know how to self-host, and I do self-host some things, but I can’t always afford the upfront investment (especially with today’s hardware costs) and I don’t have time to keep up with the administration (because I’m a wage slave) so I end up renting. I think there’s a place for paid services just as there’s a place for rented housing, but the problem in both cases is regulatory capture by landlords that mean we get stuck renting forever from exploiters.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
that’s why I believe that in a normal world, renting should only be needed for temporary hardware. a temporary home, a temporary vehicle, a temporary server, temporary storage…
but with homeservers you could have your own once you can afford it, and you could request help from contractors for the urgent type of maintenance. replacing failing disks in the array, minimal monitoring so that they can keep an eye on when that happens, maybe critical updates…