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Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome? (lemy.lol)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

I need a local server and a remote one that are synced to confidentially self-host things and setting this up is a hassle I don’t want to take.

So my question is how safe is your setup? Are you still enthusiastic with it?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's quite robust, but it looks like everything will be destroyed when your server room burns down :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Fire extinguisher is in the garage... literal feet from the server. But that specific problem is actually being addressed soon. My dad is setting up his cluster and I fronted him about 1/2 the capacity I have. I intend to sync longterm/slow storage to his box (the truenas box is the proxmox backup server target, so also collects the backups and puts a copy offsite).

Slow process... Working on it :) Still have to maintain my normal job after all.

Edit: another possible mitigation I've seriously thought about for "fire" are things like these...

https://hsewatch.com/automatic-fire-extinguisher/

Or those types of modules that some 3d printer people use to automatically handle fires...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I really like the "parent backup" strategy from @[email protected] :) This way it costs much less.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The real fun is going to be when he's finally up and running... I have ~250TB of data on the Truenas box. Initial sync is going to take a hot week... or 2...

Edit: 23 days at his max download speed :(

Fine.. a hot month and a half.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm doing something similar (with a lot less data), and I'm intending on syncing locally the first time to avoid this exact scenario.