IanTwenty

Sorry re-reading my comments it's not super clear what I meant: nowhere else in the table do they take account for the 'hidden' on-going maintenance of looking after a server/self-hosting. So this is the only row where they address 'cost' and I just thought it's a bit optimistic to say replacing all of Spotify just costs a one time server setup and storage. I think you're saying this row was only meant to indicate financial cost and I agree it's basically accurate from that meaning. However this is only the 'initial' cost. For example a self-hosted server and storage will eventually have to be replaced whereas Spotify will just keep replacing their own servers and that's already baked into the price of your subscription (caveat: that Spotify price will rise over time).

It's not a big point really, maybe I'm nitpicking.

I see what you're saying but nowhere else in that table is cost mentioned. Below the table they say maintanance is minimal. If you're already looking after storage, containers and server(s) I guess that could be true.

Author says "one-time server setup + storage" but there are a few moving parts and always updates to handle so I'm sceptical this could be truly called 'one time' (or any selfhosting). Time will tell I guess. I enjoyed the article though and gave me food for thought.

10Gb is not a big file relatively speaking - both ext4 and btrfs (for example) can handle 16TiB and larger. If this was your only reason for choosing exFAT then you can definately migrate.

Are you using RAID at all? If so ZFS is probably the way to go. If not I think it matters less whether you use either btrfs or ZFS.

Regarding btrfs and power loss:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/340947/does-btrfs-guarantee-data-consistency-on-power-outages

...btrfs is designed to only experience data loss not corruption, assuming well behaving hardware in power outage scenario. In practice ZFS has more maturity overall (definately) so may be better (my speculation).

Beyond direct comparisons if you already have on and offline backups then you are protected from power corruption and only have to worry about data loss anyway?

Was this comment meant for a different conversation? We're talking about VPNs here.

I've got probably 30+ households of people and multiply that by number of devices....this is also something that will only be live for 12 months maybe. I think if I was doing something long-lived it might be worth the effort to get everyone onto VPN but for this....just can't justify the time. Thanks anyway.

Hey thanks for this. Yep I've got too many users and most are not technical so it's just a huge headache to get them all onto VPN not matter how simple. That said I'd consider tailscale/funnel for other projects and it's always good to hear what others are using.

👍 looks like its fairly easy to add something like ModSecurity WAF to nginx

Thought process is: Peertube or some other service’s first job is the purpose for the service, so security likely won’t be as good as a service who’s first job is security.

Really good point. I see many selfhost instructions now that say 'we don't bother with HTTPS, just use a proxy to handle that' and maybe auth should go the same way as in there's good solutions that specialise in auth so it's not worth each project doing it themselves.

apps can’t deal with hitting Authentik 1st afaik

Another good consideration. There is an early Peertube app but I doubt my users will be using it, web access is fine for this. Perhaps apps for things like Lemmy/Mastodon/Peertube etc will need to work better with these auth frontends in future.

Thanks for this suggestion - this is interesting because it looks like pangolin combines almost all the measures mentioned so far here apart from Anubis: auth provider with one-time email passcodes, geoip blocking, crowdsec plus bonus automated cert handling. It does look like it does nearly everything in one package and I can pay for them to host it for me if I don't want to selfhost those parts. Strong contender!

Really good point. I can definitely restrict to one country and anyone using their own VPNs/TOR/whatever will be sophisticated enough to understand why its restricted and how to keep their access.