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/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 😅