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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start (www.reddit.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish I knew not to trust closed source self-hosted applications, such as Plex. Would have saved a lot of time and money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Can you elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Plex is a great example here. I've been Hetzner customer for many many years, and bought a lifetime license to Plex. Only to receive few months later a notification from Plex that I am no longer allowed to self-host Plex for myself(and only myself) at Hetzner and that they will block all access to my self-hosted Plex instance. I tried to ask for leniency or a refund, but that was wasted effort as well.

In short, I was caught on a crossfire when for-profit company tried to please hollywood by attempting to reduce piracy, so they could get new VC funding.

...

I am now a happy Jellyfin user and warmly recommend all Plex users to try it, the Jellyfin community is awesome!

(Use your favourite search engine to look up "Hetzner Plex ban" for more details)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@zutto @warlaan Searching about, this was Plex banning the use of Plex on Hetzner's IP block, right? Not a decision made by Hetzner?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yes, correct.

I apologize if someone misunderstood my reply, Plex was the bad actor here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are you still on Hetzner? How's their customer support in general?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Still with Hetzner yeah. Haven't had to deal with Hetzner customer support in the recent years at all, but they have been great in the past.