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Post by grvdrm »

triyambakam wrote: post #74
fabianhjr wrote: post #43

Its better to design, implement, and use local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

Very cool, and interesting that Martin Kleppmann of DDIA is an author. I am glad to come across this - I was brainstorming such a manifesto, now I can use this as a resource. One local first that I recently switched to is migrating from ynab.com to my own Libre Calc spreadsheets. It took a few days to figure out all the formulas, but now I have even more control over how I track my budget.

Do you integrate your bank accounts/etc via API or do you pull the data into the sheet manually on some periodic basis? Second question - are you using your own categories or do you rely on bank/card?

Asking as I’m sort of in the middle of the two. I keep a mostly complete spreadsheet of my expenses but that doesn’t account for things that I purchase regularly like groceries/Amazon/etc. Trying Copilot for a year right now as well.

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Post by InnerGargoyle »

einhverfr wrote: post #198

At PGConf India, one of the keynotes addressed exactly this topic. The largest stock broker firm in India had made the decision to self-host everything. The CTO made a number of points that I think are missed in this discussion and article, namely: 1. You may think you are a software company, but HR, accounting etc are just as critical to your operations as the customer product. Therefore there isn't really a distinc…

can you link it?

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Post by Joker_vD »

stonewall wrote: post #125
ryjo wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incredible. The usual response to "should I host my own email" is "don't do it; you'll get hacked." Three questions: 1. Have you heard of this complaint? 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection. 3.…

1. Yes, most people will tell you not to host your own email, because its too complicated/difficult to get your mail delivered reliably. A lot of this is FUD. Yes, email is a bit more difficult to get right than say, hosting a web app behind Nginx. It's an old protocol, with many "features" bolted on years later to combat spam. I'm not sure how email is easier to "hack," unless there is a zero day in Postfix or somet…

> DKIM records and proper signing of outgoing messages (DMARC records help too)

I've read somewhere that spammers started to use DKIM (or was it DMARC?) records faster than the legitimate web-mail providers.

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Post by ptman »

rb666 wrote: post #240
maxboone wrote: post #138

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https://www.rsync.net/ does ZFS receives, so you can send those encrypted / without unlocking.

That's minimum $60 p/m, a bit steep.

There are a couple of different offers. https://www.rsync.net/signup/order.html?code=710b50 is hn discount. There's https://www.rsync.net/products/git-annex-pricing.html and https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html

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Post by einhverfr »

InnerGargoyle wrote: post #252
einhverfr wrote: post #198

At PGConf India, one of the keynotes addressed exactly this topic. The largest stock broker firm in India had made the decision to self-host everything. The CTO made a number of points that I think are missed in this discussion and article, namely: 1. You may think you are a software company, but HR, accounting etc are just as critical to your operations as the customer product. Therefore there isn't really a distinc…

can you link it?

https://pgconf.in/conferences/pgconfin2023/program/proposals...

Maybe check back in a week and see if they have the video up.

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Post by fareesh »

cobertos wrote: post #228
fareesh wrote: post #212

Is there a feasible way to self host a dropbox clone? It doesn't seem possible to match their pricing - I suspect they assume most folks won't use the GB/TB they pay for

Seafile works well as a Dropbox clone. Been using it for a couple years now without much issue. My files are replicated to my main computer and I push files from my phone to the Seafile instance over WebDAV (automatically with Autosync in Android) and download specific files through the app.

Yeah I was more interested in cloud backups than syncing

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

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Post by Eumenes »

dmje wrote: post #39

I've been impressed with Yunohost [0]. I only have it setup on an internal box for now but it works well, and super easy to use. Good for people like me who aren't interested in admin. [0] https://yunohost.org/en

The only time I've seen democratize used correctly in the tech sense

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Post by keybits »

goplayoutside wrote: post #209

Pika Pods[1] deserves a mention here. No affiliation. Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284512 It's essentially "self hosting as a service". They package popular foss projects in docker containers and run them for you (on fly io, iirc) for a dollar or three per month. 1. https://www.pikapods.com/

+1 for PikaPods - very good value, fast performance and the developer has a track record of solid service offerings such as https://www.borgbase.com/

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Post by grepfru_it »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #215
xyzzy123 wrote: post #148

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I had fun doing this until I had kids. I have a rack with 10gbe, ups, kubernetes a zfs storage server, multiple vlans, 4 unifi APs & locally hosted controller and all sorts of self-hosted stuff. My heart breaks slightly as I watch things slowly degrade and break down due to bit-rot and version creep, I now wish I had a synology, flat network and cloud everything possible. There are days when the kids can't watch a pa…

> I had fun doing this until I had kids. As i keep telling people, self hosting is fun as long as your user count is 1. When it grows beyond that, you suddenly have a SLA. I self hosted almost everything (e-mail is pointless from privay concerns), and when we had kids i moved to a dual Synology setup with a single proxmox server for running services. Fast forward some years and electricity suddenly costs about an arm…

I hosted email until my email to a college student was rejected with no way of contacting either him or the admins of his school. That was the straw on the camels back.

I still self host apps today but my hardware is old enough that it costs more in power and cooling than what I get out of it, and the roi on new hardware doesn’t justify the means

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