How much maintenance do you find your self-hosting involves?

ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 109 points –

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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Huge amounts of daily maintenance because I lack self control and keep changing things that were previously working.

highly recommend doing infrastructure-as-code, it makes it really easy to git commit and save a previously working state, so you can backtrack when something goes wrong

Got any decent guides on how to do it? I guess a docker compose file can do most of the work there, not sure about volume backups and other dependencies in the OS.

Sorry I replied to the parent comment, but check out Ansible

Oh I think i tried at one point and when the guide started talking about inventory, playbooks and hosts in the first step it broke me a little xd

I get it, the inventory is just a list of all servers and PC you are trying to manage and the playbooks contain every step you would take if you would configure everything manually.

I'll be honest when you first set it up it's daunting but that's the thing! You only need to do it once, then you can deploy and redeploy anything you have in minutes.

Edit: found this useful resource

I have weekly backups of my VMs in Proxmox. Fuck it lol.

Nightly backups to a repurposed qnap running pbs. I'm fully aware it's overkill but it gives me some peace of mind.

I opted weekly so I could store longer time periods. If I want to go a month back I just need 4 instead of 30. At least that was the main Idea. I've definitely realized I fucked something up weeks ago without noticing before lol.

I've got PBS setup to keep 7 daily backups and 4 weekly backups. I used to have it retaining multiple monthly backups but realized I never need those and since I sync my backups volume to B2 it was costing me $$.

What I need to do is shop around for a storage VM in the cloud that I could install PBS on. Then I could have more granular control over what's synced instead the current all-or-nothing approach. I just don't think I'm going to find something that comes in at B2 pricing and reliability.