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What do you prefer to selfhost? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been around selfhosting most of my life and have seen a variety of different setups and reasons for selfhosting. For myself, I don't really self host as mant services for myself as I do infrastructure. I like to build out the things that are usually invisible to people. I host some stuff that's relatively visible, but most of my time is spent building an over engineered backbone for all the services I could theoretically host. For instance, full domain authentication and oversight with kerberized network storage, and both internal and public DNS.

The actual services I host? Mail and vaultwarden, with a few (i.e. < 3) more to come.

I absolutely do not need the level of infrastructure I need, but I honestly prefer that to the majority of possible things I could host. That's the fun stuff to me; the meat and potatoes. But I know some people do focus more on the actual useful services they can host, or on achieving specific things with their self hosting. What types of things do you host and why?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

The actual services I host? Mail

What do you use for that?

What types of things do you host and why?

Self-hosting as in at home, nothing to the outside world and i'm still sorting a local NAS; i have a VPS with a few websites but that's not self-hosting category i guess.

I'd locally-host media stuff but not even that is that important to me atm. Next on my list is 3-2-1 backups so i can reorganize my setup and eventually selfhost a wiregard VPN to access some data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What do you use for that?

Because emails can have a boatload of sensitive information (especially when collected en masse, think years and years of emails)... In the day of AI bullshit. Minimizing all that data being directly attached to an account associated with you and owned by google or some other corp seems like a sane desire. If you primary a gmail account... and they start (they probably already are) training on that dataset. Shit is going to get real testy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I meant what software stack do you use to host your email.

Btw have you encountered issues with receiving/sending mail through that account, considering the ongoing cartelization?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Mailcow.

Personally. No. The hardest part is getting a clean IP and to setup PTR records for a static IP. The rest has been easy for me personally... but I do this shit for a living so I might be biased.

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