The hidden cost of self-hosting
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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...
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
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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...
I thought the hidden cost is my power bill by having a PC run 24/7....
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I thought the hidden cost is my power bill by having a PC run 24/7....
I condensed down from a power hungry tower server to a couple of thinkstations and a nas. Much nicer on the power.
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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...
There are web extension that check for bookmakers that responds with 404 and automatically deletes them.
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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...
2000 Websites? WTF why?
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I found that going back to bookmarking (and subscribing to RSS) is the best way to pull away from the algorithm-feed-trough of the social media websites and SEO bullshit. As I got more and more bookmarks of interesting sites, and found lots of feeds to subscribe too, I found I naturally gravitated away from the corporate web. It's a requirement now if you are interested at all in indie-web type stuff, forums for esoteric hobbies or software communities, or personal web pages of interesting people -those things just don't show up on search engines or social media anymore.
Lemmy does a good enough job of bringing content to me. But I appreciate your perspective. It's definitely something to keep in mind as we get closer to the AI apocalypse.
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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...
IMO that's not a hidden cost. That's a decision you made. The actual hidden cost is the electricity and time you spend by configuring and mantaining your services.
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I thought the hidden cost is my power bill by having a PC run 24/7....
You should see if you can get all of your services to work on a Raspberry Pi. They hardly use any power.
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That’s why I don’t go back and reorganize old bookmarks. I just start fresh every time.
I don't think I've even used bookmarks since Vista.
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You should see if you can get all of your services to work on a Raspberry Pi. They hardly use any power.
Some things would, but not everything, so at best case, I would need to run 2 computers instead of one. I have a beefy spare M1 MacBook Pro, uses almost the same as the Raspberry but it's horrible for selfhosting.
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I do both - older vehicles always needing attention, and self-hosting shit
I just spun up Lube Logger so I feel this haha
