Hal

Looking at last year’s survey, the number of self-hosted devices has 2-3 first. And Raspberry Pi is most popular.

I wonder about this, because I have Pi for Pi hole, and one for Home Assistant, each dedicated. Then almost everything I self host is on a different server. But this still represents Raspberry Pi twice as much as the main server. I think Pis may be most popular because there’s many single-purposes uses for them.

I grabbed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

On a whim I also grabbed Middle Earth: Shadow of War since the bad reviews are about it being woke or having black characters, so I figured it’s worth playing.

There’s quite a learning curve if you’re not familiar with self-hosting. Doing it through a managed service sounds like a good idea.

Have you got experience self hosting other things?

I really think that it’s good to start with something small and personal (say, a wiki or Jellyfin) where you can build some skills around hosting, reverse proxies, security practices, backups, etc.

Hosting a service as part of a wider interconnected network of sites isn’t as difficult as it sounds but there is definitely potential to screw it up beyond repair.

I thought the implication was that you may only be able to buy from that registrar if you’re from/in that country?

I don’t think this helps in that situation. My battery system will continue powering the house on loss of power from the grid, it just will not feed power back to the grid. That shutoff isn’t that helpful when firefighters are probably worried about the power in the internal wiring.