The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app

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• HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Folks, we’ve received your reports. On the surface, it seems like a good faith attempt to start a discussion. This user isn’t breaking any rules. Please use your votes to determine the fate of their posts.

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• BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  ew, botposting

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  • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it? How do you know?

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    • MoonlitSanguine@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s hard to say exactly, it’s like noticing when something is CGI in a movie. It’s just kind of off.

      The first few sentences gives it away for me. There’s also the filler words.

      Also the way it rephrases the sentences. You have:

      there’s always that one piece of software, that one perfectly tuned instance, where if it so much as hiccuped, you’d be ready to throw the entire homelab

      Then again:

      what’s your absolute, non-negotiable, ‘i will personally visit the datacenter if this fails’ self-hosted application

      It’s also possible they just write like a bot.

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  • papertowels@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seconding the request for details - how do you know?

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  • themachine@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for the warning. To the blocklist it goes.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don’t really have any of those. My stuff goes down and I later get around to restarting it. I’m a wimp in not self hosting more important stuff like email. But my media files are on a local disk rather than a server.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you have a self hosted system and you throw the whole thing away because one service breaks you probably shouldn’t be hosting because you learnt nothing during the process

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• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well the only way my media server goes down is if the power is out for more than a few hours or my internet connection is down.

  So I’d have to say that.

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  • fhoekstra@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t believe you, but I’d like to be proven wrong.

    I expect you have a UPS that feeds your hosts and networking equipment and something like ZFS for disk redundancy. This protects against the most common failures and is usually enough, but there are still single points of failure in such a setup, that are not as common, not as hard to deal with through manual intervention, and quite difficult to protect with redundancy.

    I would be surprised if you are protected against the following single points of failure without manual intervention:

    • NAS machine (not just disk) failure. You would need to have a multi-node distributed storage, like Ceph, to protect against this.
    • Networking equipment failure. I think you can do some magic with BGP to do this, but I’m not a network engineer and I’ve never set up a redundant network.

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    • curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ceph for the proxmox cluster, 2x48 port switch + 16 port 10gbit as the core, 2xNAS (technically one is the backup, and there would be a few moments of downtime as the containers restart - a different container with the same config pointed to the backup NAS instead).

      UPS and internet are the SPoF.

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• 30p87@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Even Email can be down for two days or so without major consequences, and I could pull that up from backups in an hour max.

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