Submitted 6 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I recognize this will vary depending on how much you self-host, so I’m curious about the range of experiences from the few self-hosted things to the many self-hosted things.
Also how might you compare it to other maintenance of your other online systems (e.g. personal computer/phone/etc.)?
Very little. I have enough redundancy through regular snapshots and offsite backups that I’m confident enough to let Watchtower auto-update most of my containers once a week - the exceptions being pihole and Home Assistant. Pihole gets very few updates anyway, and I tend to skip the mid-month Home Assistant updates so that’s just a once a month thing to check for breaking changes before pushing the button.
Meanwhile my servers’ host OSes are stable LTS distros that require very little maintenance in and of themselves.
Ultimately I like to tinker, but once I’m done tinkering I want things to just work with very little input from me.
i’ve got a RPI and other SBC, once month, make a copy of the MicroSD card, as the data is in the HD
Depends what are you doing. Something like keep base os patched is pretty much nil efforts. Some apps more problematic than others. Home Assistant is always a pain to upgrade and something like postfix is requires nearly 0 maintenance.
Sometimes its real easy and I‘m taking a month off and nothing breaks. Then I have times where I want to add new services or optimize stuff. This can take forever. Right now I‘m building object storage behind a vpn.
30 docker stacks 5mins a day involving updates and checking github for release notes
15 minutes a day “acquiring” stuff for the server
Since scrapping systemd, a hell of a lot less but it can occasionally be a bit of messing about when my dynamic ip gets reassigned.
I just did a big upgrade to my “home-lab” (got a new switch and moved it out of my bedroom), which required some maintenance in the days, after the upgrade… Running a new ethernet cable, because the old one just couldn’t heck doing gigabit, reconfiguring my router and AP, just general stuff like that.
Other than that and my DHCP/DNS VM sometimes forgetting to autostart after a power outage, pretty much 0 maintenance
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
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Very little. Thanks to Docker + Watchtower I don’t even have to check for updates to software. Everything is automatic.
That must be why it stopped working ;-)
Does 48 hours not getting a reverse proxy working count?
It’s FreeNAS and I don’t really hoast anything but the plex server… so 48 hours.
If deleting files counts 10 days a year, if not 1 day a year.
mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 6 months ago
I have just been round my small setup and run an OS update, took about an hour. That includes a reboot of a dedicated server with OVH.
a pi and mini PC at home, a dedi at OVH running 2 LXC and 5 qemu vms. All deb a mix of 11 and 12.
I spend Wednesday evenings checking what updates need installing, I get an email every week from newreleases.io with software updates and run Semaphore to check on OS updates.