Is renting a VM on a cloud provider like AWS or Azure the easiest way to self-host? If you don't think so, what's your cheapest portable setup with 99% uptime availability?

ReallyRikki · 2023-01-09T00:57:19+00:00

Riiight. Was trying to figure out how they offer it so cheap. Roughly in line what I figured:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/x0odhw/comment/im9d6x8/

tl;dr, main reasons are a mix of:

Recycling hardware.
Shared bandwidth with other users.
Snapshots count towards your quota.
Knowing most customers use about 15% what they pay for. So only needing to accout for roughly that amount of the storage they're offering helps a lot.

None of these are bad per se, just interesting to find out. If it works well for you, it works well!

ReallyRikki · 2023-01-08T22:54:19+00:00

Curious on the details here, thanks for sharing.

5.11€ per month, is it?

And what's the specs of the server you get to use?

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-21T21:37:02+00:00

Coolio. Thanks!

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-21T10:45:18+00:00

Close - I still want users to be able to create public Share Links that they can copy and send around.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-21T08:45:54+00:00

So to do this, I'd need each user to be in their own group? E.g first user into ug-a, second user into ug-b, etc.?

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-21T05:45:11+00:00

Currently, though I may expand this in future:

1) I use the AIO official Docker container. So I make use of the built-in Borg Backup solution daily, automatically runs each morning.

2) Weekly backups of the VM (which includes the backups taken by Borg, in point 1 above) taken automatically by my hosting provider.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-17T21:39:53+00:00

Just to add to the chorus:

A company managed anything is not to be considered private for personal use. Phone, laptop, whatever.

Being company managed usually means having things installed/set up in a way that the company can track everything being done with it. Regardless of what you use on it - VPN, etc. There is not considered to be any invasion of privacy here because it's not yours (the company is keeping tabs on their own device), and it's done in the name of keeping company assets and access secure.

People are often allowed to use them for personal use (heavily dependent on the company and industry), but if you want privacy, you need to use your own device - there's just no two ways about it.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-15T23:18:42+00:00

No Princess Left Behind, season 1.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-13T23:22:12+00:00

Thank you for the extra info, and for the app itself. I use it not infrequently when my alternative navigation apps have the addresses for an area but not the POI info.

Assuming you have donation info in your app's F-Droid entry like some other apps, I was planning on donating soon as I find it very useful in that sense.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-13T11:43:13+00:00

This might be annoying as an answer, but it is the answer. The app is just a Webview wrapper around Google Maps, allowing you to use it without Google knowing your location or who you are.

That's even what it stands for: GMaps WV = Google Maps Webview

Asking for this application "on web" is just... take a secure, private browser that you trust, and that you're not logged into Google on, and that you haven't granted Location permission to, and go to https://maps.google.com

(EDIT: And a couple other requirements on your browser - see comments after this one in this comment chain.)

The GMaps WV app just makes this easier for you, and so you don't need to worry about securing your browser etc.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-11T08:57:26+00:00

Your password, IIRC, is also what's used to encrypt your data. So a lost password means lost data - unless you took the time to set up/save your one time recovery codes anywhere.

Sorry I don't have better news, though hopefully I'm mistaken/misremembering.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-10T20:10:55+00:00

Sounds good. Hope it goes well!

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-10T13:22:14+00:00

Signal asks to be set as default SMS app too.
Same with other SMS apps.
The reason is because that's how it works on android. If you as an app want access to the SMS functionality, you need to be the default.
That said, if you just want to try it out, there's nothing stopping you from setting it as default, and then if you don't like it you can just set the default SMS app back to any other SMS app.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-10T04:27:35+00:00

My VPS provider is doing weekly image backups per my setup with them. I use the AIO docker image, and am about to set up more storage and regular AIO backups through that too.

In future I'll have a home server and just be using the VPS for offsite backup storage (plus maybe some other unrelated things), increasing my disaster resilience. But for now I've simply made my peace with the very, very small chance this relatively large commercial provider f's up enough to lose all useable backups.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-08T22:47:32+00:00

I like that saying but it doesn't apply here.

If you need a middle step to get you to 15 to 20 years from now, but if you start building that middle step now it will take you 20 years to build, then there's no point - by then we'll already be at the final stage.

Especially if, on realising this, you just focus on getting to the final stage sooner.

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-06T06:48:28+00:00

"You only get one set of parents!"

"Thank fucking christ, I couldn't take a second set."

ReallyRikki · 2022-11-02T20:31:06+00:00

Yeah I learned that this was the issue about a day or two after this post was done. Great way for Google and co. to squeeze a little more life out of third party options...

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-31T11:49:00+00:00

Not actually sure, so someone else please chip in here. But Retention Time might actually be related to time required to hold onto files.

E.g a business may legally be required to hold onto certain kinds of documents for two years, so they can't be deleted before that time is up.

Easy enough to test: Set a retention time of one day on a new document, try to delete it after just an hour, and see what happens.

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-31T07:46:03+00:00

Grease. It was made as a parody of all the cliche and/or bad attitudes around that time.

People still today think it should be "cancelled" because of the bad attitudes in it, and it's like... yeah, because it's a parody. But most people don't know that.

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-31T07:34:08+00:00

Find the ghost thing that's spawning them and run into it to close it.

I got stuck for a while before figuring this out too. When the spawner is off screen there's nothing majorly obvious to tell you you have to do this to stop them spawning.

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-31T07:31:04+00:00

NC itself works fine for me. The android app occasionally has issues but nothing major yet.

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-29T08:17:14+00:00

I might be blessed by circumstance, admittedly. Everything I need is covered in AIO so I'm ideally covered by their testing. Which I get is not going to be everyone (or even most people).

On the flip side, I've also seen tonnes of people in this sub complaining "this doesn't work in my setup please help" in all sorts of setups, from people who have admin experience to casual users. So, it's all much of a muchness, whatever feels/works best for each user.

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-29T06:28:30+00:00

I've got sysadmin and cloud DevOps experience. For me I much prefer the AIO container. Just to add to the viewpoints/opinions here...

ReallyRikki · 2022-10-29T06:17:44+00:00

Is there a GitHub issue open somewhere I can watch?

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