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| Self-hosting Sucks | 2021-05-05 | post |
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Originally posted on my old blog
After one month of self-hosting, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that self-hosting sucks. As I've said in a previous post, self-hosting is not the solution to our privacy woes. So why exactly does it suck so much? Here's a short timeline of the past month:
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My Discord-Matrix bridge goes down over a weekend and I don't find out for several days. When I try to restart it, I get all sorts of weird Node.js errors about better-sqlite3. After hours of trying to fix it, I finally just remove all occurrences of SQLite from the code since I use PostgreSQL anyways.
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Nextcloud Mail stops working. I finally filed an issue on their GitHub repository and it turns out it was PHP 8.0.5's fault. Updating it fixed my problem. Who would have thought?
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Collabora CODE is super sluggish. Nextcloud's built-in CODE server happens to be a joke, but setting up a standalone server isn't trivial, either. Compounded with terrible documentation, you have the perfect recipe for a wasted day of debugging!
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Grafana/Zabbix really sucks. Bad documentation strikes again! This one wasted at least six hours...
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NFS is terrible. Why do we have to edit
/etc/fstablike it's the 1990s? Why?
Of course, a few good things happened, too. I finally got "DIY cloud gaming" to work a lot better, by using X forwarding and VirtualGL. vglconnect is the best remote desktop app I've ever used. I even got sound to work with PULSE_SERVER=client_ip_address! Yes, FlightGear works and isn't super laggy somehow, osu! works with pulseaudio-alsa so the nefarious PulseAudio can hijack the role of ALSA, the cursor capture in Minecraft and Minetest isn't all weird like it is in VNC, and, of course, I can get a decent FPS in SuperTuxKart now. Yay for gaming, not so much for all the other broken and badly designed and badly documented stuff.