Brutkey

GeePawHill
@GeePawHill@mastodon.social

I wish I believed that self-hosting things was easy.

I'd self-host my new site. Self-host a forgejo instance. Self-host the docs for my open source projects. Self-host email.

But in spite of what the fanboys say, self-hosting is neither particularly easy nor particularly cheap.

My wife sometimes suffers from the "my labor and expertise is free" delusion, but I do not.


Erik Ableson
@erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social

@GeePawHill@mastodon.social I agree entirely that it’s not for everyone. For me personally (as an independent IT consultant), that Β« labour and expertise for free Β» gets filed under research since it’s been amazing how many times I have to fix/tweak/modify something I’m hosting and in the following 3-6 months I have a client who calls in a panic to fix exactly the same problem.