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markstos , 6 days ago to Selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

DDoSing cost the attacker some time and resources so there has to something in it for them.

Random servers on the internet are subject to lots of drive-by vuln scans and brute force login attempts, but not DDoS, which are most costly to execute.

markstos , 10 days ago to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

Other efficiency benchmarks place Apple Silicon and AMD chips ahead of Intel chips:

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu_benchmark-cpu_performance_per_watt

markstos , 11 days ago to Technology in VPN by Google One shuts down

Google: trust us, we can’t see your VPN traffic.
Most users: No.

markstos , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

I’ve donated to marcan to work on Asahi Linux, which gets upstreamed. That’s direct.

What has better performance per watt than M1 at a better price?

markstos , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

I didn’t pay a premium, I got a great deal.

The reverse engineering work was already complete, and all the containers I needed for ARM were available.

These have great performance per watt.

markstos , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

I host using an M1 Mac Mini using Fedora Asahi Linux. Installed easily, no problems. Fast and quiet!

I ran a Minecraft server for a while. Worked fine.

markstos , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

There are plenty of Linux containers available for ARM in part because a lot of developers want to run Linux containers within macOS on Apple Silicon.

That has had the effect improving the experience of running Linux directly on ARM servers.

markstos , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2?

All the hardware support for the Mac Mini is complete and working.

I’ve had no problems running Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini.

markstos , 15 days ago to Selfhosted in immich: Does a SSD/HDD make a noticable difference?

Considering the database itself is relatively small, PostgreSQL could end up largely caching it in memory, so even hosting the DB on an HDD might not feel much slower.

markstos , 16 days ago to Selfhosted in Web-Shop WYSISWG App

As someone who has done e-commerce development and supports FLOSS and self-hosting, this is something I would outsource.

It’s complex, and you can’t really handle payments yourself anyway. That requires certification.

And people really don’t like it when their e-commerce is down and may able to quantify lost business due to an outage or bug in dollars or sense. It doesn’t feel great to realize something on your end resulted in hundreds of dollars of lost business.

If the business is very small, places like Shopify have cheap starter tiers.

markstos , 16 days ago to Selfhosted in Web-Shop WYSISWG App

Are you installing this for someone else?

markstos , 24 days ago to Selfhosted in [PODMAN] Unable to run systemd services with quadlet systemd-generator

Exactly what is the auto prompt you see?

markstos , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in let's see what is documented for the proxy...

It’s the age-old choice between old and stable vs new and shiny.

The meme’s opinion is that old stable is the better choice, although that’s not always true.

markstos , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything

Former professional email host here. Email is like 90% spam.

If want to spend your free time battling the ever evolving landscape of spam, enjoy.

Otherwise, work with a pro mail provider you trust.

markstos , 1 month ago to Selfhosted in Why You Should Self-Host Everything

As someone who has had a career in hosting: good luck.

Don’t forget backups, logging, monitoring, alerting on top of security updates, hardware failure, power outages, OS updates, app updates, and tech being deprecated and obsolete at a rapid pace.

I’m in favor of a decentralized net with more self-hosting, but that requires more education and skill. You can’t automate away all the unpleasant and technical bits.