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This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far.
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this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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Don't threaten me with a good time
It could be their own cloud. I refer to my VPSes as "the cloud" even though that's still self-hosting.
No one else uses the term "cloud" like that.
That part of this comic really stuck out like a sore thumb. I can't tell if it's an oversight, a comment about the challenges of self-hosting, or subtle mockery of self-hosting hypocrisy.
Broadly, "the cloud" is just someone else's computer. VPSes still fall into that definition. A lot of VPS providers describe themselves as "cloud" now too (eg one of the main hosts I use, HostHatch, describes themselves that way on their site).
If a single EC2 server (which is essentially just a VPS in one region) is considered to be "in the cloud", why not a much cheaper, more powerful server with a different provider?
Nextcloud can be selfhosted
My interpretation of "cloud provided media storage" in the context of self-hosting is something like seaweedfs.
I use "my personal cloud" all the time. But that's just me.
I got another one. Self hosted but tunneled through cloudflare
This counts as discussion of self-hosting.
My case is a variant of that - I used to host on a VPS, but the storage available was extremely expensive for, say, more than 16 GB. Tired of having to trim data literally daily, I went and purchased a home server with all the storage I would need. The problem? My home internet, being residential, is behind CG-NAT (not even a dynamic IP!), and that means renting a (much cheaper) VPS solely to expose my server to the open internet with a static IP.
For exposing your server to the internet, a $10/year 512MB RAM VPS would be more than enough. You can also get VPSes with way more storage for a reasonable price, especially during Black Friday. The VPS I'm hosting Lemmy and Mastodon on has 99GB disk space and is only $33/year, but that was part of a limited sale.