I’ve seen a lot of people saying things that amount to “those tech nerds need to understand that nobody wants to use the command line!”, but I don’t actually think that’s the hardest part of self-hosting today. I mean, even with a really slick GUI like ASUSTOR NASes provide, getting a reliable, non-NATed connection, with an SSL certificate, some kind of basic DDOS protection, backups, and working outgoing email (ugh), is a huge pain in the ass.

Am I wrong? Would a Sandstorm-like GUI for deploying Docker images solve all of our problems? What can we do to reshape the network such that people can more easily run their own stuff?

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.deB
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    1 year ago

    the hardest part is doing backups and updates. Repeat after me:

    no backup, no pity,

    updates neglected, compassion rejected.

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      1 year ago

      Dear Debian users: please also update your Debian version, not just your packages. Like… once a decade would be an improvement for many poor servers.