Hey,

I know it sucks to rely on cloud services but it is what it is. I use Apple iCloud, Bitwarden and GitHub.

Technically, I could self-host all three but I want my backups not at my place or at least have them in both places cloud/at home.

I do have two spare Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and one small computer with an old i5 / 8 GB RAM.

What do you personally self-host?

  • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
    3·
    19 hours ago

    I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of “self host” as 90% of what I host is a hetzner server running out of finland. because well that’s off site backups lol.

    my setup is.

    Local: Frigate (CCTV manager), Homeassistant (home automation), Matrix (chat).

    Remote: Mealie (recipe collection), Vaultwarden (works with bitwarden clients), Nextcloud (files and documents), Freshrss, gitea (github alternative)

    Now in terms of wanting an offsite backup, you are probably right, assuming you don’t have something offsite that you can syncronize with, and assuming you don’t have any major privacy fears of what is hosted, those things are probably best to use cloud for, assuming you are more worried of losing everything in a house fire, than you are of say the stuff being spied on by a 3rd party or caught by hackers.

    So yeah I’d say, personally in things I like to have self hosted… on site, probably I’d say a local messanger is good if you’d like a reasonably private communication for friends/family etc… Niche things like RSS readers, or recipe books, really anything strange niche you can probably search for some program to self host it.

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 hours ago

      I guess for me it kind of depends on your definition of “self host”

      meh…I don’t split hairs on the definitions. Server at home vs VPS. No real difference, the end goal is the same: Privacy, anonymity, and security.

    • q1p_@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      I think the only thing that makes me worry a little bit is that Microsoft has my source code. It’s not “bad” but sometimes I think about it. So I probably need a gitea instance then.

      Edit: it’s interesting that you mentioned private messenger. I just built one (using Bluetooth Mesh routing with a basic encryption for 1-on-1 chats) and am waiting for App Store approval. :)

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        17 hours ago

        Microsoft has my source code

        FWIW, other public git instances exist. As in alternatives to github. No need to selfhost.

        • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          17 hours ago

          Not sure that really works for git though… at least with regards to it’s primary usage.

          git isn’t just a backup… it’s about version control.

          IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn’t working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change… and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.

          If you encrypted it so that git couldn’t actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions… but you’d basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can’t read the files).