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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] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

"Already stable enough"

no it isn't.
if fucking should be, it's been around 15 years!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My only experience with btrfs was when trying out Opensuse Tumbleweed. Within a couple days my home partition was busted, next time it was another partition. No idea if the problems could be fixed as these were fairly new installations to give Opensuse a try and I couldn't be bothered to fix a system that's troubling me from the very beginning.

Between all the options that just work (TM), btrfs is the one I've learned to stay away from.

EDIT: that was four or five years ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And I’ve been using it for ~~eight~~ six of those 15 in RAID 5/6 with zero issues, so YMMW I guess. Sorry you experienced problems.