The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
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Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#2I host a webserver for a living, so I might be too far removed from the problem; I don't see anything that 1 minute of effort as part of a less-than-10-minute session with an agentic AI tool can't solve safely. A decent README and project structure is all Codex/CC/Pi needs. I mean this even for the least-technical person who would be self-hosting something.
I guess that breaks the plug-and-play nature, but you can't expect something internet-facing to be plug-and-play. (Maybe that's the real travesty here.)
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#3How many of these problems PHP solves out of the box or makes irrelevant?
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#4This is only tangentially related, but I have a love-hate relationship with Immich. Love for everything, but loads of hate for the bug-o-feature that disallows sharing of albums if the website is not hosted over HTTPS.
I can fiddle with the page content in Developer Tools to make it work, but frankly, WTF, especially since Immich expects people to set up a reverse proxy for HTTPS access on their own and does not help them in any way (like providing a pre-configured caddy in their compose.yaml, I don't know)
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#5I'm not sure I understand this post. Is this talking about self hosting Caddy in a home lab setting or just static web hosting on a VPS?
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#6Perhaps the article's title should be, "The web has become a hostile, largely automated environment and naive hobbyists may find it difficult to coexist with professional scrapers, scammers, grifters, bots, hucksters, and cybercriminals."
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#7I'm not sure I understand this post. Is this talking about self hosting Caddy in a home lab setting or just static web hosting on a VPS?
I think the author missed the root cause, which is the demise of (unencrypted) HTTP/1.1 connections.
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#8How many of these problems PHP solves out of the box or makes irrelevant?
All. People forget hiw performant the LAMP stack is.
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#9All of those requirements seem weird. I selfhost a few software and the user count is one. My extent at sysadmin is to write a systemd service, configure the proxy (if it’s on a vps and I use subdomains), and maybe use ansible for scripting the provisioning and deploy.
It’s fine to publish recommendations how to tune configurations for specific usages. But I only need the app, not the various things that you may think I need. And I really want the app to only solve its essential problem. It should not take care of the IT part other than providing configuration samples.
Re: The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale
#10I host a webserver for a living, so I might be too far removed from the problem; I don't see anything that 1 minute of effort as part of a less-than-10-minute session with an agentic AI tool can't solve safely. A decent README and project structure is all Codex/CC/Pi needs. I mean this even for the least-technical person who would be self-hosting something. I guess that breaks the plug-and-play nature, but you can't…
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