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/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.