Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.

But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

I’m in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it’s a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they’re still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!

And that’s just ONE service…

    • kerntucky@infosec.pubEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You should see if you can get all of your services to work on a Raspberry Pi. They hardly use any power.

    • SwizzleStick@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I condensed down from a power hungry tower server to a couple of thinkstations and a nas. Much nicer on the power.

  • Ptsf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I hate having to run my own backups. That’s been a massively hidden cost behind self hosting that I did not originally account for. Anything sufficiently robust is expensive and anything cheap is unreliable (at least at the scales of data I have, 4k+ RAW videos and photos are massive).

    • Jason2357@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Does it still count as “self hosting” if one of your backups uses something like restic to push to b2 or hetzner storage boxes? It’s not consumer point and click.

      I have one copy going there, and one going to a $50 thinkstation usff connected to a single external hard drive. It’s not raid, but if it dies, it just gets quickly replaced while I rely on the hosted backup.

  • danzania@infosec.pubEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Have you considered the possibility that, if you have 2k bookmarks, this isn’t necessarily a self-hosting issue, but rather a bookmark hoarding issue :)

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        This is what I do. I keep the old ones around for a while, and every time I realize that I’m not missing anything, and delete them.

        Worst case, I’ll have to root around in my backups. But it has never happened wrt browser bookmarks.

      • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        Sometimes hitting delete is the best thing you can do. Especially bookmarks, how many of them is out of date, or not relevant to you any more. And if you needed some of it, you can find it again. Sure, there is a few things a bit harder to find, but it should take less time than sort through 2k bookmarks. 😀

  • dantheclamman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I just moved 20k bookmarks from Pocket to Readeck, and can sympathize lol. A lot of the links are dead. I found a cleanup script I’m going to run but it’s still a huge curation challenge

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Just 2k in bookmarks? Pffft! Those are rookie numbers. Check back when you have 59k bookmarks. Currently there are 1.1k in the broken links category. The vast majority of the links are topics I research or have interest in, exterior of self-hosting. I do not consume TV data, but I do a ton of reading. I find that reading gives me better retention of the topic, and it’s rather easy to highlight & search for cross comparisons, and further research. Ever since I was a wee lad, barely able to read, I have had an insatiable lust for knowing. It is this that drives the link counts. LOL

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I guess the trick is to not look for stuff to host because you’ll end up with all kinds of things you weren’t doing in the first place.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

    What is this “sort” thing you speak of? I don’t sort anything, I have NextCloud syncing my entire photos, videos and documents folders and they are just as messy as ever. Granted, I do go through my photos and videos once a year and dump them in a folder named for the year they were taken. Occasionally, I’ll go hog wild and try to sort some of a year’s photos/videos into folders named after events. Though, that hasn’t happened in a number of years. I setup NextCloud so I could have everything synced to my own server and just forget, not have to deal with labeling my data.

    As for bookmarks. I already keep those in folders; but, I don’t sync those. I use my desktop far more than I use my phone for web browsing. And the types of things I use my phone for (mostly recipes), I just keep bookmarked there.

  • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Actually, that is a thing I like. Going through this stuff can be tedious, but it brings a lots of memories, things that I forgot about, things I once wanted to do. And also, after cleaning my digital life I feel similar as after cleaning in the physical world - good - I did something, I made my world a tad bit more organized and a tad less overwhelming. (I should note that I am lazy and I always must force myself to clean, but I never regret doing that after I start 😀) P.S. as I wrote in one comment below, maybe bookmarks is not a necessarily a thing that you want to go through and sort. Here I am more writing about my notes, or photos, etc…

    • diegantobass@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Definitely second your feeling. I am similar in my relationship to cleaning. It feels like a lot of effort, but efforts feel good afterwards.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Content management makes up very little of what I self host.

    That stuff’s just curated and is always been curated as I take new things that I need I curate them.

    Then there’s another class of data I deal with which is synchronization. Synchronization as the wheat and the chaff in it and if any of it goes away I don’t really care because anything that was really worth keeping already got curated.

  • utjebe@reddthat.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There is a hidden cost to every hobby and everybody is willing to tolerate a certain degree of shittyness.

    I have a friends that has a rather old car and something on it is always broken. But he has no problem having 20 different apps for appliances, instead of deploying home assistants. Or having ads everywhere and even trying pihole or at least NextDNS.

    On the other hand, I see my car as a transportation tool and when I need it I want to use it without worrying about some random part exploding. But I have no problem running Proxmox and hosting tons of services for my family.

    That said, I would definitely not self-host something like NextCloud or any business critical component for my business and just paid somebody for the service.