Self-Hosting Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore—Here’s Why You Should Care
“Let's face it, we use the internet for just about everything. We even use the internet for sensitive things, be that banking, sending sensitive data, or just storing our photos. With all of that, privacy is expected (and not an unreasonable request, either). However, privacy is rarely given by the companies that house all of that data, even if that means skirting the law to achieve what they want. Companies will often tout that your privacy is at their core—but is it really?”
The article goes into this point as one of the driver's for self-hosting for many. It is also the reason we are seeing so many decentralised and federated social networks springing up as well. Others want to self-host to save money on expensive cloud storage costs, whilst some in South Africa do it so they have services to still enjoy when the grid is busy load-shedding.
But whatever the reason, most of us start out small, and the habit keeps growing as you realise self-hosting works pretty well. I started out with one Raspberry Pi, and by the time I had my 3rd Raspberry Pi going, I realised I need to migrate to an Intel NUC, which then migrated to a Lenovo M720q. Exactly the same has happened with the storage side, and only from this month have I finally moved to a proper RAID 1 storage solution. Only last month, I finally built my first own network cabinet.
Most of my YouTube videos over the last year or two have been about various solutions I have self-hosted, and been finding very useful.
So, do not be intimidated by expensive looking home labs that some YouTubers show off (the flashing lights usually serve no functional purpose). Any self-hosting can start off with a Raspberry Pi and an SD card. Your next step may be to just attach an old hard drive to that Pi, and it goes from there at whatever pace works for you (in many cases, your spouse with reign you in any way).
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Self-Hosting Isn’t Just for Nerds Anymore—Here’s Why You Should Care
You don't need a network engineering degree to self-host services anymore.
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