aReallyCrunchyLeaf
@aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a 2 weeks ago:
I started both around the same time. I switched careers from being a chef at a pretty high level. Started getting into systems and got engrossed in it. So the selfhosting was just an aspect of my education.
- Comment on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? 3 weeks ago:
You should not host anything that’s going to be public facing on your own hardware in 2026, period. Get a cheap German VPS and go nuts with it. There’s simply too much at stake opening up your home router/firewall for such little gain. Plus, being a residential IP behind NAT might just make it straight up impossible.
I host my own email and a matrix server. I would never think of exposing my home network to the internet. I use tailscale to get into the homelab, anything exposed to the net lives somewhere far, far away.