AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoWhy You Should Self-Host Everythingdev.toexternal-linkmessage-square159fedilinkarrow-up1438arrow-down120
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minus-squaregorogorochan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·7 months agoI do self-host some services but it bugs me that a lot of articles that talk about costs do not factor in a lot of additional costs. Drives for NAS need replacement. Running NUCs means quite an energy draw compared to most ARM based SBCs.
minus-squareGrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·7 months agoAnd it dismisses the time component of self hosting. It’s not going to be zero.
I do self-host some services but it bugs me that a lot of articles that talk about costs do not factor in a lot of additional costs. Drives for NAS need replacement. Running NUCs means quite an energy draw compared to most ARM based SBCs.
And it dismisses the time component of self hosting. It’s not going to be zero.