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?

  • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I host everything on a single server. This is generally advised against, because if it goes down then you lose access to all services, but it hasn’t been a problem for me yet.

    I use Unraid, with one parity drive. This provides me with comfort against single drives failures.

    I then have backup scripts which backup any data I think is important to an external HDD connected to the server. This provides me with extra comfort against single drive failures, and the comfort that if the server went down, I can relatively easily plug the external into another machine and restore some essential services.

    I also then have automatic backups of those backups to a cloud provider. This provides me with the comfort that if anything is stolen, damaged, lost in a fire, etc, I still have all my most important data available.