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Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome?
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Right now I just play with things at a level that I don't care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.
If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there's someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.
Exactly right there with the not worrying. Getting started can be brutal. I always recommend people start without worrying about it, be okay with the idea that you're going to lose everything.
When you start really understanding how the tech works, then start playing with backups and how to recover. By that time you've probably set up enough that you are ready for a solution that doesn't require setting everything up again. When you're starting though? Getting it up and running is enough
Gonna just stream of consciousness some stuff here:
Been thinking lately, especially as I have been self-hosting more, how much work is just managing data on disk.
Which disk? Where does it live? How does the data transit from here to there? Why isn't the data moving properly?
I am not sure what this means, but it makes me feel like we are missing some important ideas around data management at personal scale.