Maybe I try to host bad software, maybe I am just bad at computing but at this point I feel like I’m getting too old to constantly debug various issues. I just want certain things to work and I’m willing to pay the price for it 😮💨
I’ll never host my own DNS, Email or torrents.
Everything else yes.
DNS was quite easy
None of those are hard technically. They’re just very essential and I rather enjoy my DNS working and email delivered at all times.
Why not torrents over a VPN, if you have bandwidth to burn?
I trust my VPS provider more than a VPN. And I want a VPN primarily for privacy, not massive p2p bandwidth or the ability to circumvent geographical restrictions.
Also my seedbox can run 24/7 with the bandwidth capped and it doesn’t have any effect on my life.
If my home internet is uploading at full speed, streaming services start to stutter and that’s annoying.
not hating on a VPS for torrenting, but you fix that stutter by properly setting up priorities and bandwidth limits in your firewall.
If I had a symmetrical connection, I would do that.
But it’s like 1G down and something fucking pathetic up on a good day.
No VPN here. I’m currently seeding 211 torrents. 🤷
Trying to self-host email is the reason most people rage-quit. I tried to do it once, never again!
I tried and eventually succeeded, though it took ages to figure out where the configuration was wrong. It was something relatively stupid too, iirc. But I still don’t actively use it because I don’t have enough faith in its reliability to use for something as important as email, lol
me too! lol
NEVER AGAIN!!! lmao
alternately, you could try my self hosting method: something on my server doesn’t work -> nooo i need to fix everything on my server -> something on my server doesn’t work
Depends on what I’m hosting tbh. For most things I’m comfortable self hosting but after a brief spell of hosting my own email I gave that up and went to a paid service.
Email is such a mess so it being a pain to self host isn’t surprising. There’s a good Dylan Beattie talk about email that I believe mentions self hosting actually.
Yeah what can I say I was young a dumb. Self hosting email isn’t even a thing ive done professionall for nearly a decade now and I don’t miss it.
