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I ran one for a few months until I woke up one morning and it wasn't working. As I was the only person using it, I didn't bother to troubleshoot and just signed up for an account at lemmy.world.
If you want to run your own I recommend you check out the ansible install route. It's really simple and straightforward once you wrap your head around ansible.
Running on a synology, but it's not cheap. I like having direct access to my stuff if I can. Next step is cloud backup of my local , i think borg or something is very popular.
I'm going to say that self hosting becomes a fun hobby once you get your core services running. Core in this case means the services that are bringing you into selfhosting.
I consider selfhosting to be both. VPS or homelab. The latter has more 'cred' but is also a much bigger investment and not everyone can do it. Granted I'm living in a difficult environment but as somebody using Linux since 1994 it took me 3 years to recently get a homelab to where I could credibly serve the wider internet from it, and I still use a VPS as reverse proxy anyway! Meanwhile, offloading your physical plant to a mom-n-pop platform-as-a-service provider isn't the worst thing in the world. Some operators started out selfhosting and grew their little VPS provider from that, those guys need business too!
I don't know about the history of selfhosted, I use a vps at hetzner which serves as playground and I use a mini desktop (hp elitedesk) as my home automation lab.
This community is an inspiration on spotting new techniques and software to discover!
Hey, I love this thread, and I am intrigued by the term "futureproof"ing. can someone direct me to a thread where local networks are self-hosted and the human element of organizing the network is discussed? Thank you. If I don't come back, it's because I'm new to Lemmyworld and got lost.
at least i do have 2 servers. one main and one backup
I have servers at home but I don't host services
I do the same. I have probably 20 VMs on my home lan. Then I have about 4 servers with various providers.
For me, since you can get kicked off a platform eg hetzner vps, it's not self hosted, they're hosting you.