danielo515

joined 1 year ago
 

This is a honest question. I have two RSS services hosted on my server, and I don't see the point. RSS is by nature distributed, and subscribing to my own server just makes the source of all news being the same. What is the advantage? What do people use it for?

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

What is a long time? I've been running it more than a year, and the number of times it broke and the amount of time I had to invest into its quite high. You may be lucky, or I may be unlucky, but I'm just explaining my experience

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We aware that Immich breaks one week and then the other week too

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. Although I usually handle backups myself (to backblaze) and I never tested provider backup mechanism

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's true. But if I start having many servers I will also start feeling the urge to cluster them, and that will be an absolute black hole of my time 😅

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. In any case I will attach an external volume,which is easier to manage and relatively cheap. Thanks for pointing it out

 

I have an already configured VPS server in Hetzner. I'm pretty happy with it. I have it configured with yunohost (a Debian "layer" that allows you to easily install services). Now I'm planning to run a NextCloud service, but my current server is not capable to handle it with it's current capabilities. For the same price I could scale my current server or spin up a new server with the same capabilities and dedicate it to next cloud.

The disadvantages of spining up a new server, is that I have to configure another server and secure it, but the advantage is exactly on the same side: I will have a second server in case something fails or I want to "scale down" to save costs it will be easier.

Even if I just scale up the current server, I will have to add an extra disk and configure the server to use it, so I'm not sure about the advantages of each one.

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It is not very hard. The problem is when they suddenly change an environment variable name or format, and you need to debug what is not working and why

[–] danielo515@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Yes, you can. But will you be able to keep up with their tiring update cycle that forces you to redeploy every week?