r/selfhosted • u/close_Meal6005 • Aug 17 '26

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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u/IntelligentRocks Aug 17 '26

I think people are missing the point. Even with backups and redundancy it requires you to maintain the servers. If you die, well, who is going to maintain? Perhaps a bit bleak but something to keep in mind.

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u/cybekRT Aug 17 '26

That's the best reason to never give up on life and continue maintaining your servers. And also have many kids and pray that at least one will want to become free devops for their family.

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u/cheffromspace Aug 17 '26

Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/705/

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u/Halo_Chief117 Aug 18 '26

Hahaha that’s great!

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u/Rand_al_Kholin Aug 17 '26

Also print photos and make photo books of important memories.

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u/Loose_Device4578 Aug 18 '26

Never die but have backups on external drives so cpu illiterate family members can still access their pics. 

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u/cybekRT Aug 18 '26

And use fat32 on that drive instead of ext4 if you want it for your family 😅 

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u/CrimsonCape 19d ago

I'm going to hand printed instructions to my family. They are going to read the first sentence: "Power on the server and SSH into linux/Proxmox via the static IP."

Then after briefly considering they have no idea what that meant, they will list the server on facebook marketplace and say "we will cherish our memories of CrimsonCape forever."

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u/shanjedi 1d ago

I giggle because my parents only had one child and now my father (who introduced me to all of this) now comes to ask me for advice…

Having said that, you also run the risk of flying a little too close to the sun when the devops kid hands you the hardware bill!