Comment on Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks agoExactly right there with the not worrying. Getting started can be brutal. I always recommend people start without worrying about it, be okay with the idea that you’re going to lose everything.
When you start really understanding how the tech works, then start playing with backups and how to recover. By that time you’ve probably set up enough that you are ready for a solution that doesn’t require setting everything up again. When you’re starting though? Getting it up and running is enough
andyburke@fedia.io 2 weeks ago
Gonna just stream of consciousness some stuff here:
Been thinking lately, especially as I have been self-hosting more, how much work is just managing data on disk.
Which disk?
Where does it live?
How does the data transit from here to there?
Why isn't the data moving properly?
I am not sure what this means, but it makes me feel like we are missing some important ideas around data management at personal scale.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I just got a mini PC and put 5 disks in it and struggling with the same…