Hey, I was thinking about getting a VPS and hosting my own single user Lemmy instance. I am trying to think of other things to host. I already have some old hardware running unRAID with Plex, the *arrs, Kavita and home assistant. This is pushing my hardware to the limit but I still want to mess around with some self hosted things. Is there anything you would rather host on a rented server as opposed to a server sitting at your home?

  • Count Zero@lemmy.villa-straylight.social
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    1 year ago

    Because I don’t want to be centralized around a single company and service. Any company can provide a vps endpoint. I can literally be set up again in a manner of minutes on another ip, vps, or vps provider.

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      1 year ago

      Out of all the battles for decentralization, the convenience Zero Trust provides is a trade-off I’m willing to make. I don’t see it being that much of an all-eggs-in-one-basket sort of deal since there’s no configuration done on any of my hosts. I simply install the tunnel with the token and that’s it. If there’s any reason I need to eject from Cloudflare I can simply pull the plug. Zero Trust feels more similar to relying on a nameserver with DNS management.