Why I still self host my servers (and what I've recently learned)

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• ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice article.

  why bother? Why I self host

  Most of this article is not purely about that question, but I dislike clickbait, so I’ll actually answer the question from the title: Two reasons.

  First of all, I like to be independent - or at least, as much as I can. Same reason we have backup power, why I know how to bake bread, preserve food, and generally LARP as a grandmother desperate to feed her 12 grandchildren until they are no longer capable of self propelled movement. It makes me reasonably independent of whatever evil scheme your local $MEGA_CORP is up to these days (hint: it’s probably a subscription).

  It’s basically the Linux and Firefox argument - competition is good, and freedom is too.

  If that’s too abstract for you, and what this article is really about, is the fact that it teaches you a lot and that is a truth I hold to be self-evident: Learning things is good & useful.

  Turns out, forcing yourself to either do something you don’t do every day, or to get better at something you do occasionally, or to simply learn something that sounds fun makes you better at it. Wild concept, I know.

  Contents

  Introduction
  My Services
  Why I self host
  Reasoning about complex systems
  Things that broke in the last 6 months
  Things I learned (or recalled) in the last 6 months

  • You can self host VS Code
  • UPS batteries die silently and quicker than you think
  • Redundant DNS is good DNS
  • Raspberry PIs run ARN, Proxmox does not
  • zfs + Proxmox eat memmory and will OOM kill your VMS
  • The mystery of random crashes (Is it hardware? It’s always hardware.)
  • SNMP(v3) is still cool
  • Don’t trust your VPS vendor
  • Gotta go fast
  • CIFS is still not fast
  • Blob storage, blob fish, and file systems: It’s all “meh”
  • CrowdSec

  Conclusion

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  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Raspberry PIs run ARN

    Sooo RPis are now processing proteins ? XD sorry I’m bit drunk… Thank for the short insight, was too lazy to click !!

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    • ericjmorey@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Enjoy your Friday

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• Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

  Fewer Letters	More Letters
  DNS	Domain Name Service/System
  RPi	Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
  SBC	Single-Board Computer
  VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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  • meonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think “VPS” in Christian’s blog post does refer to shared hosting.

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    • mlaga97@lemmy.mlaga97.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think shared hosting there is more meant to refer to the older “upload your files in webmin and we’ll shove them in /cgi-bin/ with everybody else’s”-style hosting where multiple users sites are running on a single instance of a webserver versus a VPS giving you a VM with SSH access?

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting read, Hetzner’s been on my radar for a while.

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  • FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Highly recommend. I moved my web hosting from my home server to a CPX11 server for better uptime (my tinkering around in the homelab was always bringing things down) and couldn’t be happier. It’s dirt cheap (cheaper than shared web hosting, even), performant (performance is better than shared web hosting) and reliable. With a 20TB bandwidth limit at the lowest tier, I can reverse proxy for most of my homelab, too.

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