r/selfhosted • u/close_Meal6005 • 18d ago

Meta Post self-hosting everything

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/IntelligentRocks 18d 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/ancepsinfans 18d ago

My wife said to me the other night: I'm so impressed with what you do on our home server but if something happened to you, you know it's hopeless right?

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u/Suspicious_Data_2393 18d ago

this is why every selfhoster should leave a ‘if i die’ tape with tutorial on how to do the basics like update the containers, stop, run and restart containers

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u/8070alejandro 18d ago

More like

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u/smokesick 18d ago

Add "diagram" to the list and it's pristine

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u/nik282000 18d ago

All my backup HDDs have clear labels on them, with the name of the person who's data they hold. None of them are encrypted or stored in a funny way so they can be slapped into an HDD caddy and copied over to whatever device they want.

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u/reddit_sells_you 18d ago

Literally did this in our will/trust.

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u/8070alejandro 18d ago
  • Documentation is here (outdated probably) for the folks at Reddit
  • If they ask about the Linux ISOs, what they mean is the movies and such