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The most valuable thing for me is my photo library. All of them are currently in Google Photos. Is there any easy way to backup just that? I don’t care about my personal email, tasks, calendar etc. It’s just the thought of losing my photos scares me.
Where does he host his email? It doesn't say. Also, his website is very slow, probably because he's not using a CDN. A noble goal, but it has an impact on credibility. The slow website makes me feel like he doesn't care about user experience, which makes me assume that is true for his whole setup, and turns me off from even considering it.
That’s a massive jump to make when he is probably being beaten to hell by HN right now. That’s not a reasonable chain of expectation. Reevaluate your logic.
Daily backup is 30 days retention. Only had to setup once.
Weirdly enough, i don't have any maintenance. When I log in to create a new site, i see all the stats too.
It would cost me at least 18€*30 in the cloud ( amount of sites). I'm 100% sure self hiding for me is a lot cheaper.
I use Gmail and a box account too fyi. But i don't consider that "the cloud", it's a service that i use. Not something to deploy my own development on.
Ps. My uptime is better than a lot of services that is the cloud.
Funny headline, because every time I try to self-host anything important like mail, I learn how deep that field is and how little I know and that I'll probably need many many hours to do everything right and in a secure way (and my mails would still have a higher probability to be classified as spam). Then I think: "Screw it, I'll just use GMail"
Regarding email, I spent some tens of hours setting it up, including implementing DKIM, DMARC, SPF and getting my mail delivered to Gmail and O365. That was over a year ago and things mostly just work with the occasional upgrade or configuration change. You could also save a lot of time by going with a pre-packaged solution. I understand if you don't have time for that, but at least in my experience, self-hosting ema…
About 5 years ago, I read the O’Reilly book, Postfix: The Definitive Guide that had been sitting in my book-shelf for years. I installed and configured Postfix as a sending-only mail server on a Hetzner VPS. I sent a few test emails to GMail accounts and a friend’s Office 365 and they both worked! I then gradually added extra layers of functionality (TLS, DKIM, SPF, DMARC).
Once I was happy that I could successfully send emails, the next step was to receive email: I added MX records for my domain and opened port 25 on the firewall. I was able to use Mutt over SSH to read emails sent to my account. I later installed Dovecot (excellent documentation) and Squirrelmail (lacking in features but was easy to install). I don’t really use web-mail but I’ll probably install Roundcube at some stage and I plan to learn how to use Sieve for automatic filtering.
I thought I’d have serious problems with spam and have to install anti-spam software and/or use black-lists but that hasn’t (yet) been an issue. Simply using Postfix default options along with grey-listing and not accepting messages from invalid (according to SPF records) sources blocks all spam. The only times I received spam was when I had accidentally disabled the grey-listing (the mail logs show I get hundreds of connection attempts with only a tenth of successful connections being genuine). The system actually works better than GMail in that I don’t miss messages that were wrongly flagged as Spam. Another benefit of self-hosting is that I can quickly and easily set up account-specific email addresses, e.g., – no need for
I gradually started using it instead of GMail and it’s now my primary email account for important communication. In the four years of serious use, I haven’t had any problems (touch wood).
I'm curious as to for how long you've been using this setup specifically in regard to Nextcloud, and how many and what volume of files you store in it? I've set up a few Nextcloud instances in the last 2 years on Digital Ocean VPSs and Raspberry Pis and I ran into so many problems and difficulties which scaled with the quantity and size of files I hosted on it. I took care in setting up everything to a relatively sol…
Raspberry Pis are toys, don't use them for anything important. I've been running NextCloud on an Intel NUC i7 in a Linux container so I can easily snapshot and backup. Recovery is easy in the event of a hardware failure as replacement NUCs are available off the shelf. All I need to do is swap the HD and RAM and I am back in business.
Y'know what, Although I'm currently self hosting my email, my websites, my storage, my SQL, my Active Directory etc., I'm also in the process of migrating the whole lot to Azure and/or independent hosting. Why? It's just too much hassle these days; I want my down-time to be no longer dictated by my infrastructure. I don't want to have to spend off-work hours making sure my boxes are patched, my disks are raided, my o…
The author of this post cites $55/month as his cost. This is wrong. If it takes him, say, two hours a month to maintain (probably conservative) then if you value those hours at $100/hour the actual cost is $255/month. The reality is probably in excess of $1000/month. This only makes sense for people who have an abundance of spare time, and that's pretty rare these days. Free software for DIY hosting like this is "fre…
The diagram alone is more than enough of an argument to dissuade me from giving this a shot right now - it's simply too complicated and too much to manage for the amount of time I can dedicate to it. BUT - I'm really thankful for people who keep posting and sharing these sorts of projects; they're the ones iterating the process for the rest of us who need something a bit more turn-key. I'm excited to see this eventua…
I used Cloudron.io for most of the above. Check them out. Most polished self hosting experience by far.
I'm curious as to for how long you've been using this setup specifically in regard to Nextcloud, and how many and what volume of files you store in it? I've set up a few Nextcloud instances in the last 2 years on Digital Ocean VPSs and Raspberry Pis and I ran into so many problems and difficulties which scaled with the quantity and size of files I hosted on it. I took care in setting up everything to a relatively sol…
Syncthing is great! Are you using zerotier for transport security. Or does it improve speed as well? Off-site syncs are far too slow for me. Luckily, it's very rare that I have to do them.
The diagram alone is more than enough of an argument to dissuade me from giving this a shot right now - it's simply too complicated and too much to manage for the amount of time I can dedicate to it. BUT - I'm really thankful for people who keep posting and sharing these sorts of projects; they're the ones iterating the process for the rest of us who need something a bit more turn-key. I'm excited to see this eventua…
Use a cloud provider or your own automation to create a cluster, then apply a set of configs to bring your services up.
The author treats his personal life as a job, with productivity tools and benchmarks. Whatever works for you, but I couldn't live like that.