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   Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 22:05:04 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

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   • ocdtrekkie

   @ocdtrekkie @donkeyblam well, I'm talking about people who are 'hardcore tech' and shouldn't be intimidated by copying and pasting a few commands. These things take ~10-60 minutes to do... and then a few minutes the next time you do an upgrade. Many of the services I use get a few hours of my time per year in admin... and that's a lot cheaper than a) having to spend a bunch of time jumping through proprietary provider hoops, b) trusting them to look after my data, & c) paying them.

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     ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 22:05:06 JST ocdtrekkie

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     • Sky UwU

     @lightweight @donkeyblam The problem here *is* the Docker model of self-hosting. It's too complicated and it's too insecure.

     Your blog post says "here's what I usually do" and then lists out over 20 magic incantation steps in the CLI. Just for one app! This is why people don't self-host.

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     Dave Lane 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 22:05:07 JST Dave Lane 🇳🇿

     • Sky UwU

     @donkeyblam good question. I suppose there's general stuff to read out there, but given the vanishingly low cost of getting into it (e.g. a $5/month commodity VPS) it's something I just learned by doing. I've written up a whole bunch of howtos which give some guidance on VPSs stuff, too: https://tech.oeru.org - a good starting point would probably be the Bit/VaultWarden howto. It's a hugely useful service: https://tech.oeru.org/setting-your-own-bitwarden-password-manager-and-vaultwarden-sync-server