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How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I recognize this will vary depending on how much you self-host, so I'm curious about the range of experiences from the few self-hosted things to the many self-hosted things.

Also how might you compare it to other maintenance of your other online systems (e.g. personal computer/phone/etc.)?

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[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

After my Nextcloud server just killed itself from an update and I ditched that junk software, nearly zero maintenance.

I have

  • autoupdates on.
  • daily borgbackups to hetzner storage box.
  • auto snapshots of the servers and hetzer.
  • cloud-init scripts ready for any of the servers.
  • Xpipe for management
  • keepass as a backup for all the ssh keys and password

And I have never used any of those ... it just runs and keeps running.

I am selfhosting

  • a website
  • a booking service for me
  • caldav server
  • forgejo
  • opengist
  • jitsi

I need to setup some file sharing thing (Nextcloud replacement) but I am not sure what. My usecase is mainly 1) Archiving junk 2) syncing files between three devices 3) streaming my music collection

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I moved form next cloud to seafile. The file sync is so much better than next cloud and own cloud.

It has a normal windows client and also a mount type client (seadrive) which is also amazing for large libraries.

I have mine setup with oAuth via Authentik and it works super well.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I actually moved from seafile to nextcloud, because when I have two PCs running simultaneously it would constantly have sync errors and required manually resolving them all the time. Sadly nextcloud wasn't really better. But I am now looking for solutions that can avoid file conflicts with two simultaneous clients.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you changing the same files at the same time?

I have multiple computers syncing into the same library all the time without issue.

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Are you changing the same files at the same time?

Rarely. But there is some offline laptop use compounded with slow sync times. (I was running it on a raspi with external usb hdd enclosure)

Either way, I'd like something less fragile. I'll test seafile again sometime, thanks.