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Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Post by Retr0id »

sshine wrote: post #2

tl;dr: - Don't depend on other people's software services. - Buy a domain and host your own website. - Don't pick a sketchy TLD or registrar. - Mailing lists beat social media accounts. - It's okay to depend on a cloud. I had the belief that the article was going to say the exact opposite wrt. cloud hosting. You're literally renting space, and if your stuff gets any heat, your cloud provider may simply shut you down…

My interpretation of their words on the cloud front was more like, don't depend on or become locked into any specific service. If you're using Azure to host a VPS, you could easily move it to AWS or, Hetzner, etc.

Likewise, if you're using Cloudflare as a CDN (and only as a CDN!) there are other CDN providers available that you could switch to with relative ease.

Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Post by ghaff »

sshine wrote: post #2

tl;dr: - Don't depend on other people's software services. - Buy a domain and host your own website. - Don't pick a sketchy TLD or registrar. - Mailing lists beat social media accounts. - It's okay to depend on a cloud. I had the belief that the article was going to say the exact opposite wrt. cloud hosting. You're literally renting space, and if your stuff gets any heat, your cloud provider may simply shut you down…

Ultimately you're on the Internet and you don't own the Internet. At that point, you're making decisions about the level of control you want to have and the types of events you may be subject to and the answer is almost certainly "it depends."

Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Post by rmoriz »

lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #7
sshine wrote: post #2

tl;dr: - Don't depend on other people's software services. - Buy a domain and host your own website. - Don't pick a sketchy TLD or registrar. - Mailing lists beat social media accounts. - It's okay to depend on a cloud. I had the belief that the article was going to say the exact opposite wrt. cloud hosting. You're literally renting space, and if your stuff gets any heat, your cloud provider may simply shut you down…

I expected him to mention colocation. Kids these days. shakes his cane.

A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog,DNS, mail. I have 3 Lenovo ThinkCentre Mini PCs running Proxmox VE in HA mode off my basement. Picture at https://devops.science/

Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Post by sobkas »

rmoriz wrote: post #13
lylejantzi3rd wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I expected him to mention colocation. Kids these days. shakes his cane.

A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog,DNS, mail. I have 3 Lenovo ThinkCentre Mini PCs running Proxmox VE in HA mode off my basement. Picture at https://devops.science/

> A homelab with an useable uplink can be sufficient for many services like blog, DNS, mail.

I always felt like you are painting target on your homelab when you allow outside access.

Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

This all sounds like renting to me. Instead you should:

  - put a rack in your home
  - buy an IPv4 block
  - buy dark fibre
  - start your own ISP
  - advertise routes over BGP
  - host your own email
  - found a registrar and transfer your domains over
All easily obtainable for less than a million dollars in capital. Though once your FTTH and undersea cable operations ramp up you'll need further access to capital.

Re: Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

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Post by dend »

muglug wrote: post #6

This is good advice for people whose livelihood depends on the attention of anonymous strangers. For everyone else, it’s probably ok to ignore.

You don't even need attention - it could be a public blog where you share about the things you learn. You never know who it's going to help. That's primarily my motivation with the blog.
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