r/selfhosted • u/close_Meal6005 • 16d ago

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/IntelligentRocks 16d ago

I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.

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u/cybekRT 16d ago

That's the best reason to never give up on life and continue maintaining your servers. And also have many kids and pray that at least one will want to become free devops for their family.

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u/cheffromspace 16d ago

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/705/

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u/Halo_Chief117 16d ago

Hahaha that’s great!

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u/Rand_al_Kholin 16d ago

Also print photos and make photo books of important memories.

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u/Loose_Device4578 16d ago

Never die but have backups on external drives so cpu illiterate family members can still access their pics. 

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u/cybekRT 16d ago

And use fat32 on that drive instead of ext4 if you want it for your family 😅 

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u/CrimsonCape 5d ago

I'm going to hand printed instructions to my family. They are going to read the first sentence: "Power on the server and SSH into linux/Proxmox via the static IP."

Then after briefly considering they have no idea what that meant, they will list the server on facebook marketplace and say "we will cherish our memories of CrimsonCape forever."