Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
By: opicron to Vintholdt on Tue Apr 01 2025 08:00 pm

Does anyone have any general and/or security advice?

Although I love the project. I would still say take a 5 USD/month server at CloudWays and save yourself much headache. You can still do all the nice server stuff, but at least its backed up, always available etc etc.

Truth... Although I WAS expecting the "headache" and ready to deal with it since I love fixing shit. Thanks for your input though! :3

Just my 2 cents, sorry if it doesnt align.

You're good, I like hearing peoples suggestions on how I can do stuff more efficiently, so I'll be looking into what you suggested!
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Re: Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
By: Dmxrob to Vintholdt on Thu Apr 03 2025 05:52 pm

Unless you have a passion to learn and tinker, use Cloudflare pages and leave the worry to them.

I do have that passion. Who doesn't want to learn?
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Although I love the project. I would still say take a 5 USD/month serve CloudWays and save yourself much headache. You can still do all the nic

And then have an OVH like crisis when their datacenter burns to the ground

No, if you dont have your docker backup locally, to spin up in a minute or two at any other service you are doing it wrong. No crisis for me.

Where I work at we have been pulling services off the cloud back into our premises because budgetworthy cloud services are not that reliable.

We are talking about hobby local home projects. 1) Internet will never be as reliable as at home 2) power outages are more common then any cloud service and 3) no time to spend on hardware or its issues.

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Although I love the project. I would still say take a 5 USD/month serve CloudWays and save yourself much headache. You can still do all the nic server stuff, but at least its backed up, always available etc etc.

Truth... Although I WAS expecting the "headache" and ready to deal with it since I love fixing shit. Thanks for your input though! :3

If thats the case its a great way to go about it indeed ^^.

Just my 2 cents, sorry if it doesnt align.

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Re: Advice on self-hosting a website?
By: opicron to opicron on Tue Apr 15 2025 06:30 am

And then have an OVH like crisis when their datacenter burns to the ground

No, if you dont have your docker backup locally, to spin up in a minute or two at any other service you are doing it wrong. No crisis for me.

I would buy the argument but then you say

We are talking about hobby local home projects.

So while I agree having some Infrastructure as Code trick mitigates (but does not void!) the need for a proper backup strategy, the moment you mention it is a hobby project you reduce the probabiligy of a good, usable, no friction automated deployment existing.

Also, it is worth noticing that lots of people nowadays use Infrastructure as Code which is trapped via vendor lock-in.



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