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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start (www.reddit.com)

submitted 2 years ago by EliRibble@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just use plain boring desktop hardware. (Oh no! I'm experiencing data corruption due to the lack of ECC!) It's cheap, it's available, it's trivial to upgrade and expand, and there's very few little gotchas in there: you get pretty much exactly what it looks like you get.

Also nice is that that you can have a Ship of Theseus NAS by upgrading what needs upgrading as you go along and aren't tied into entire platform swaps unless it makes sense - my last big rebuild was 3 years ago, but this is basically a 10 year old NAS at this point.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

So did you buy ecc ram?