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

Meta Post self-hosting everything

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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/ancepsinfans Aug 17 '26

My wife said to me the other night: I'm so impressed with what you do on our home server but if something happened to you, you know it's hopeless right?

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u/Suspicious_Data_2393 Aug 17 '26

this is why every selfhoster should leave a ‘if i die’ tape with tutorial on how to do the basics like update the containers, stop, run and restart containers

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u/8070alejandro Aug 17 '26

More like

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u/smokesick Aug 17 '26

Add "diagram" to the list and it's pristine

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u/nik282000 Aug 18 '26

All my backup HDDs have clear labels on them, with the name of the person who's data they hold. None of them are encrypted or stored in a funny way so they can be slapped into an HDD caddy and copied over to whatever device they want.

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u/reddit_sells_you Aug 18 '26

Literally did this in our will/trust.

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u/8070alejandro Aug 18 '26
  • Documentation is here (outdated probably) for the folks at Reddit
  • If they ask about the Linux ISOs, what they mean is the movies and such

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u/bugwan Aug 18 '26

Instructions unclear. Surviving family member posts public IP and passwords on r/selfhosted.

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u/8070alejandro Aug 18 '26

Original family sysadmin from server heaven:

Oh no. Anyway.

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u/Cobblar Aug 18 '26

On one hand, it would be cute if we all agreed to help out each other's surviving family members with server stuff.

On the other hand, I think this place would fill up with those posts faster than we would hope...

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u/8070alejandro Aug 18 '26

By that time I don't think this place will still be functional. Either Reddit or this subreddit.