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The intersection between selfhosted and nosurf (alien.top)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello everyone,

One thing I'm sure is in common between self-hosters and people over at r/nosurf is our aversion to the popular big services like Google, Facebook...

I started self-hosting a few years ago because I was sick of depending on big corps, but over time I started getting sick of anything related to technology (even though I'm a dev lol). Recently I've been experiencing downtime on my server and I still haven't figured out the cause, and it's kinda making me feel that I am a slave to my setup, the same way I was a slave to the big corps.

I was wondering if any of you felt something similar, and how would you design a self-hosted setup that's as low-maintenance as possible (I'm already using a VPS instead of a home server to reduce maintenance).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's a good point about updates, but what about security vulnerabilities...

About templates, it's true that my setup is far from being one-click-deployable, but I feel like it takes even more effort to make it as a template?

I do have time and mental energy, I am just starting to be less interested in spending them on server administration... (but I know that it's a compromise anyway, cuz using the normie services has a hidden cost on the long term)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I can only access my services through VPN (tailscale) when I am outside, so I don't worry that much about security vulnerabilities. And in my experience so far, security updates are usually more stable than feature updates so I install those without hesitation when I have the time.