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0 pointsWastingMyTime894y ago0 comments

> the transition to k8s only took a few weeks and a couple sleepness nights

Only?

I have had a home server for fifteen years and used to have a homemade router. That's significantly more time than I have ever spent on them. I don't even bother maintaining scripts for my home installation. I have reinstalled it once in the past decade and it took me significantly less time than writing said scripts would have. There was enough things I wanted to do differently that any scripts would have been useless by that point anyway.

At that point, it sounds more like a hobby than something saving you time.

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MrOwen4y ago· 1 in thread

I guess I never considered self-hosting as not a hobby? Web apps with modern stacks are usually pretty complex, so hard for me to imagine someone just casually jumping in as a non-hobby and not running into big problems at some point. Or getting hacked because you didn't bother or forgot to secure something.

WastingMyTime89OP4y ago

> Web apps with modern stacks are usually pretty complex, so hard for me to imagine someone just casually jumping in as a non-hobby and not running into big problems at some point. Or getting hacked because you didn't bother or forgot to secure something.

That's not my experience at all. Plenty of web apps for self hosting are pretty simple. You just install the packet, read the config files, turn on and off what you need and you are good to go. Since systemd made that easy, most apps now come preconfigured to use a dedicated users and drop the capabilities they don't need. If they don't, you are two lines aways from doing it in their service file.

Then I just throw Caddy in front of everything I want to access from outside my local network and call it a day.

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