I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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    4 months ago

    “Already stable enough”

    1. no it isn’t.
    2. if fucking should be, it’s been around 15 years!
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      4 months ago

      My only experience with btrfs was when trying out Opensuse Tumbleweed. Within a couple days my home partition was busted, next time it was another partition. No idea if the problems could be fixed as these were fairly new installations to give Opensuse a try and I couldn’t be bothered to fix a system that’s troubling me from the very beginning.

      Between all the options that just work ™, btrfs is the one I’ve learned to stay away from.

      EDIT: that was four or five years ago

    • thomasloven@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      And I’ve been using it for eight six of those 15 in RAID 5/6 with zero issues, so YMMW I guess. Sorry you experienced problems.