Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

I need a local server and a remote one that are synced to confidentially self-host things and setting this up is a hassle I don’t want to take.

So my question is how safe is your setup? Are you still enthusiastic with it?

  • @LordCromEnglish
    15•6 months ago

    I have a rack in my garage.

    My advice, keep it simple, keep it virtual.

    I dumpster dove for hardware and run proxmox on hosts. Not even clustered, just simple stand alone proxmox hosts. Connect to my Synology storage device and done.

    I run next cloud for webDav contacts and calendar (fuck Google), it does photo and do. Storage. The next client is free from F-Droid for Android and works on debian desktops like a charm.

    I run Minecraft server

    I run home automation server

    I run a media server.

    Proxmox backs everything up on schedule

    All I need to do is get off-site backup setup for Synology important data and I’m all set.

    It’s really not as hard as you think if you keep it simple