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Self hosting is hard. How do you overcome? (lemy.lol)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

I need a local server and a remote one that are synced to confidentially self-host things and setting this up is a hassle I don’t want to take.

So my question is how safe is your setup? Are you still enthusiastic with it?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly self hosting but maintaining/backing it up is hard for me. So many “what if”s are coming to my mind. Like what if DB gets corrupted? What if the device breaks? If on cloud provider, what if they decide to remove the server?

Backups. If you follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy, you don't have to worry about anything.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it enough to have a single offsite backup?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's exactly what the 3-2-1 rule says.

3 copies of your data
2 different kinds of storage media
1 off-site backup