Hey,
I know it sucks to rely on cloud services but it is what it is. I use Apple iCloud, Bitwarden and GitHub.
Technically, I could self-host all three but I want my backups not at my place or at least have them in both places cloud/at home.
I do have two spare Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and one small computer with an old i5 / 8 GB RAM.
What do you personally self-host?
lmao, people out here on VPSs acting like they went from renting to owning, when really they just rented the motherboard, the case, the fans 🤣🤣
OP get an end-to-end encrypted remote backup app.
Didn’t downvote ya but… Server at home, VPS in the cloud…samey samey. The end goal is the same: Privacy, security, and anonymity. I don’t know why people out here are going on about pedantic definitions. Selfhosting isn’t an exclusive club with a homelab prerequisite. It’s open to anyone regardless of the equipment they use.
Privacy? Anonymity? lmao, it’s their computer. They see everything you do.
So, you run your own ISP?
You don’t know the S in HTTPS?
Riiight. Imma let you go on that one.
I own my data. I own my installation. That’s what I care about.
Why would I want to own the hardware, when it’s in an inaccessible building far away.
Their computer, their data.
We host most stuff at home, and then additionally some services at Hetzner on an (auctioned) root server. Bloody nice to get really good hardware for cheap, plus unlimited data with either 1 or 10Gbit synchronous network speed, a dedicated IPv4,…
Stuff like my mail server lives there because it HAS to be available, and doing it at home, and doing it well, is next to impossible.
I’m planning a nix hydra + cache server, which will probably also live on the Hetzner server, simply because it’ll have pretty intense jobs to run a lot of the time and I’m not a fan of having the noise of spun-up fans at home.
Both solutions have their place, is what I’m saying / agreeing.
We can end-to-end encrypt mail but dudes are out here raw dogging VPSs like it’s 1998.
Not a VPS.
Someone else’s computer.
More like: paying someone to maintain the hardware.
Anyways.
Just FYI, your mails with a provider like Proton are not E2E encrypted unless you exclusively wrote with other Proton customers (in which case I assume they are. No idea). Otherwise it’s just encrypted at rest.
I dint really see the benefit over doing it completely yourself, not even offering metadata to a provider, and also having encryption at rest, while maintaining full compatibility with mail clients 🤔
FYI, use GPG.
Yes, and I do werether the recipient also knows how to use it.
So, for like, 1% of my mails.
Some don’t have the capital or spare parts lying around to build their own on premises server. A VPS is an easy, secure way to get started in the hobby. No need to gatekeep.
That don’t stop others seeing what you do on their computers. If you don’t care, no one’s stopping you.