This question arose as I have come to a realization that I need to put an effort in some health check monitoring for my self-hosting and an off-site backup solution for all of my important data, and not keep putting it off, after my company’s SAN went down.
I’m curious if there are other things I should consider for my self-hosted services that may not be as obvious
Health check is good, I need to do similar. What I’ve personally been missing is monitoring (passive or active). I have infouxdb/grafana for maybe two services but it’s not robust enough to determine anything yet. So definitely passive monitoring.
Also, alerting. Even simple email alerts would be ideal but for the life of me I can never get email set up properly on any machine I own. It’s always awkward and troublesome.
Finally probably stability in case of power outage, internet outage, or other issue. It sucks to notice you have services dependent on each other to boot properly after things reboot at 2am.