Due to Apple pulling ADP from uk consumers I think it would be fitting for us to discuss and suggest alternatives that our uk members could use and switch to.
Due to Apple pulling ADP from uk consumers I think it would be fitting for us to discuss and suggest alternatives that our uk members could use and switch to.
Stupid question:
Where do you put your self-host server?
At home? Idk where y’all live but most American homes are made of wood, and that aint good for fires. (And even if not wood, fires can still exist.)
I host servers both out of my home, out my wife’s office and I also have some cloud servers at Digital Ocean.
If you’re worried about data loss (and you should be) you need offsite backups. I have actually lost data to a fire (in 2009) and to a hard disk crash when I didn’t learn my lesson the first time (in 2014). Never again.
I have backup servers at both my house and my wife’s office. If you don’t have a wife with a convenient office for this purpose, you could probably find a self host buddy to host your backup server (and maybe you could host your buddy’s back up server, a friend and I used to do this years ago). You could also encrypt everything and then back the encrypted files up to the cloud, secure that the fascists almost certainly can’t decrypt them, even if they get their hands on the raw data.
You can automate this. There are tools that can help. I’m kind of a power user and I just use rsync, scp, minio and database replication to automate my various backups, so I’m a bad person to ask about the easier to use tools that can do this. However, either of those communities I posted are full of people with better answers and I know that less DIY back up tools exist.