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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has had a career in hosting: good luck.

Don’t forget backups, logging, monitoring, alerting on top of security updates, hardware failure, power outages, OS updates, app updates, and tech being deprecated and obsolete at a rapid pace.

I’m in favor of a decentralized net with more self-hosting, but that requires more education and skill. You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.

But it's our job to try

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

But if we hide the complexity, surely we won't ever have to deal with it! /s