The cloud is over-engineered and overpriced (no music)
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I tried the music and the feedback is clear enough that I think it's worth uploading a version of this with no music. I'm still learning!I'm sorry :( I reall...

For most personal projects, hosting on the cloud may be overkill, but tempting with its supposed ease of use and benefits of scale. Self-hosting is often overlooked as a solution with the benefit of simplicity and cost.

Interesting discussion and demonstration of self hosting the kinds of apps most personal projects will end being.

  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I run an opnsense firewall with dynamic DNS to cloudflare. I have owned a domain for decades and I have it point home. Recently I gave up inbound NAT. Now I just use wireguard. It’s performant and my phone automatically kicks it on it I’m off my Wi-Fi network. And I’ve significantly reduced my attack surface.