| ▲ | selfhoster11 4 days ago |
| I disagree. From experience (see my username), self-hosting is hardly expensive. A $50 ex-corporate SFF with a couple of large M.2 or SATA SSDs will be a lot more powerful and easier to set up and manage than a Raspberry Pi, while not drawing much power. The ongoing costs are larger than not self-hosting, but not terrible - unless you want a symmetric connection, the domain name renewal is the expensive part. |
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| ▲ | wmf 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| Normies pay with money; you're paying with time and knowledge. |
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| ▲ | selfhoster11 4 days ago | parent [-] | | Nope, normies pay with sovereignty. Given the entire ecosystem (Microsoft, Apple, Google and Meta being the main ones) is trying to rob me of it, I'm happy hosting what I need and can handle admining, paying for what I need and can't handle admining, and saying no to the rest. | | |
| ▲ | faust201 4 days ago | parent [-] | | How is responding nope make sense? Many people don't know to build immich or ZFS etc. I do know some self-hosters losing data from just a poweroutage etc. So there are self-hosters that also cry. |
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