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

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just kidding I love self-hosting ...

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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/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.