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The hidden cost of self-hosting (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by diegantobass@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Self-hosting services has been a life-changer. And I thank this community for helping me a lot recently. Not only did I learn a lot more about linux, network and docker, but it helped me understand better how platforms and advertising just f*cked up the internet I grew up with.

But I wonder: do any of you hate how self-hosting services like photo- or document-management systems, or even a simple rss tool, forces you to sort your stuff out, and put your decades old files in order?!

I'm in the process of migrating my web browser bookmarks to linkding because it's a GREAT tool. But I have like 2k websites to manualy check wether they're still there, wonder at how cool they still are, tag properly and archive with SingleFile!

And that's just ONE service...

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[–] Fedditor385@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought the hidden cost is my power bill by having a PC run 24/7....

[–] kerntucky@infosec.pub 1 points 20 hours ago

You should see if you can get all of your services to work on a Raspberry Pi. They hardly use any power.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I condensed down from a power hungry tower server to a couple of thinkstations and a nas. Much nicer on the power.