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Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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before I read the article, I wholeheartedly disagree with the title.
Self-Hosting not only brings control back into your own hands, but also hones your skills at the same time.
OK so after reading I do agree partially with the regulation aspect, but from a privacy POV all of that is fixed by just not storing PII, I run multiple services in my stack, and the most info I collect on someone is their email, which they defo could just opt out of which I would delete off the system.
As for the cost and labor. It's really not that difficult, my stack consists of Game servers (a mix of them primarily survival based like ark), email hosting for myself and some friends + no reply services for other internal services, my media stack, my file server, the firewall, a reverse proxy manager and my own programming projects/sites. Honestly the hardest part was the networking aspect of it, learning how to use proxmox was a trip because I hadn't used a containerized environment before outside of docker.
I think this articles being disingenuous with the no paycheck, there is more to Value than a paycheck. My self hosting while I may not be being paid for it, if I were to put my current setup on to remote hosting I would probably be paying roughly $150 to $200 a month for a private VPS this system allowed me to just spend $700 as a one-off and then minor maintenance costs if something failed, which for a project I intend to keep running regardless its the cheaper option.
As for the ideology of decentralization, yes there is some issues in regards to reliability, obviously these smaller side projects for self hosting aren't going to have the redundancies that the "proper" hosting is going to have. Like for example just last night my service went down because I lost power for about an hour and a half and my battery standby only had enough power for about 45 minutes of it. Being as most of my stuff is more personal based I'm not too concerned about the downtime but I could definitely see if it was a large scale project like a lemmy server it would be a little more distasteful.