And not VPS hosting, as that’s essentially just self hosting on somebody else’s hardware.Īfter shutting down my self hosted services I turned off my PowerEdge, deleted a handful of firewall rules, and i could relax a little. Shortly after New Years, I handed in my 2 weeks notice as a home system administrator, and migrated every public available self hosted service to cloud hosting. I didn’t want to worry about multiple backups, local and remote, and worry every time thunder would roll if it would fry the UPS. I already maintain a small fleet (<100) of servers at work on top of my responsibilities as software architect and lead / senior developer. When 2021 rolled around the corner I decided I didn’t want to spend my spare time being a system administrator. I also spent quite a few hours worrying when a drive would fail, and looking for deals on replacement drives. Checking logs for hardware errors, intruders, failed backups, software updates. I spent at least an hour every day making sure everything ran as a well oiled machine. From a custom built FreeBSD server running ZFS RAIDZ1, to Synology, to multiple Raspberry Pi’s (this blog started out on a raspberry pi B), a few years on The perfect media server, and up to my latest iteration of a Synology DS918+ for storage and a Dell PowerEdge T30 for hosting services (accessing storage over NFSv4 with Kerberos). I’ve been across multiple iterations of hardware. I’ve been self hosting for decades ever since my first 2/0.5 mbit ADSL connection, but after the Snowden revelations I doubled down on bringing everything back home. Part of what has been keeping me busy is because i self host everything except mail.
I have about 20 “draft” posts waiting for the finishing touches, but I just never found the time to do it. To the point where I’ve had little time for personal projects, and when I finally made something, it either turned out to be a bad idea, or not in a state I wanted to show. Not because I meant to, but as they say “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans“, and life has been happening a lot to me these past few years. This blog has been in a state of neglect for a long time.
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