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Cake day: January 20th, 2025

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  • Since they handle redundancy and backups I think it’s fine staying with them (+ great product)

    This. I love self hosting services, but anything that I 100% can’t live without isn’t one of them. Because I don’t have the funds for proper redundancy/high availability, and my backup practices at home are… Not ideal. I’ve had a couple brushes with data loss due to gaps in backups, lack of monitoring for impending hardware failures, and had 2 disks suddenly die together in a raid array, all in over a decade of self hosting.

    I have cold backups of most of my critical services, but they’re not nearly regular enough for me to trust my passwords to myself.







  • If I’m interested, what should I do different?

    There’s no good answer for this to someone who legitimately is curious but lacks even the most base knowledge of the topic. But the answer I give to seemingly good faith participants is to not come into an active conversation that’s already into the weeds and ask basic questions that could be answered by a simple Google search. Failure to do so will be seen as bad faith participation because this is the same tactic that bad faith participants use and it’s not worth the average person’s energy to dig through a profile to see whether or not they may be a good faith participant.

    TLDR - If you don’t put in the effort before asking a basic question about a controversial topic, people likely won’t put forth the energy to engage in a productive manner when it appears you have not done so as well.