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0 pointsthrow0101a5y ago0 comments

Or, if everyone (or at least more people) managed to have symmetrical high-speed Internet connections, self-host a lot more stuff.

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sbarre5y ago

You're going to leave security, data integrity and privacy compliance up to random unaccountable anonymous strangers on the Internet who self-host?

You're going to trust them to have proper backups, proper disaster recovery, proper resiliency and scalability?

What you're describing works for small-time stuff like blogs, personal projects or other inconsequential things, but anything at the scale of Goodreads, where users are trusting years of data to someone just can't be hosted by random people.

I'm not saying I have the answer but "people should self-host this kind of thing on their Internet connections" is not it.

throw0101aOP5y ago

I wouldn't necessarily trust others with my data, but if a person wants to trust themselves then that's up to them.

Symmetrical high speed connections allows for the option of self-hosting one's own stuff and being able to serve it to the Internet (or connect to it remotely), but it is not mandatory for people to choose that option. They may not feel confident in their owns skills so choose the option of paying someone else to be responsible for it.

I'm simply talking about having more options.

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