Hi,

The last google product that is use is gmail, and while searching for a solid alternative, many threads mentionned self hosting, which has been on my mind for a little while but here is what’s stopping me so far: 1/ it sounds like a single point vulnerability 2/ I lack the skills.

As for #2, I’ve been down the privacy rabbithole for a couple years now, I know there are a lot of resources out there and I’m not afraid to learn, I just don’t know where to start.

But I don’t see the point in learning if in the end, I just build a server that could die in a domestic accident, resulting in me loosing a lot of important data.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated,

  • dihutenosa@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    you can do a lot of learning with basic hardware

    So so much.

    I’m running video calls (Livekit) for ~50 users (dunno how active) through an ancient laptop that doesn’t even have USB3. Among other things - the same lappy is also doing email and TLS termination for a HLS stream.

    I’m using an old phone, a Google Pixel 3a (that’s 4 GB of RAM) as a monitoring solution (Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, ntfy).