Linux

Stage 4: "I'm done. This isn't worth it and I don't actually NEED any of it! rm -rf / it all and wander silently off into the woods. Curl up on a mound of moss and watch all the things that bumble."

When you spur of the moment decide to turn your gaming pc into a proxmox machine and then miss gaming so you end up down a rabbit hole of iommu groups to pass your Gpu through to a steam os VM to wrestle with Linux virtual display drivers so you can use sunshine to cast your games to your laptop

It eventually worked but you can quickly end up in a niche hell hole with little to no coherent documentation.

Trash guides is a gateway drug

Stage 5 - you live in the woods and talk to a rock

2 and 3 are the same and you're deluded if you think otherwise

lol at 'accidental' beta testers. I tell my family they're testing my shit

The thing that I hate about self-hosting is that a lot of apps that could just be a plain offline thing are instead being designed to be super bloated server-docker things. Databases are not reasonably portable data formats.

I think I have reached stage 4: No hosting, off-site backup is on an external SSD in a locker at work

Me transition from stage 1 to stage 2, nervously.

Stage 4 clustered servers so k8s can keep the containers up and configured

Stage 5 GitOps

Stage 6 federated clusters on your buddies infrastructure so each of you have off site high availability. Or hardware squirled away at families houses.

4. I do this shit for money I ain't going to do it for free. I'm not about to be the 24/7 unpaid on call for my families pagerduty rota. Paid cloud services for me

I'm in this meme and I don't like it

ooo audiobookshelf don't mind if I do

"Wow these R730/R740 ear destroying rack servers are super cheap on ebay"

Stage 4: code your own social network and run it on the ThinkPad under the stairs with a DB server in a wardrobe.. Fight scrapers and spammers incessantly.

4th is writing your own self hosted tools

Only 27 containers? That rookie numbers... You gotta pump those up!

I'm currently sitting at 131 containers across 3 Kubernetes nodes, all bare-metal though, no virtualization.

I just use flash drives to transfer stuff from my computer to the ipad so i can watch in bed lol, keep my music on an mp3 player

I've been pretty happy in #2 for years.

With this sort of thing, I'm always left wondering what I'm missing in terms of the hardware. Like, I've been collecting bits and bobs of old hardware for years, but it feels like if I want anything more than an absolutely basic raspberry-pi-level server, I need to buy dedicated hardware. For example, I want to put together a nas, especially since I do have a collection of spare, old hard drives, but would want raid for that. Unfortunately, its rare to find a mobo that has more than four sata ports, and all the power supplies I have available to harvest from other systems are either too weak, or are proprietary, meaning I'm halfway to buying a new PC anyway. Is there something I'm missing, or do others just have more disposable income?

I'm definitely stage 3 but it's still an enjoyable hobby that isn't that time-consuming. I think stage 4 is creating your own services and spamming social media in search of users.

I’m worried I don’t know if I’m 2 or 3

I'm in stage 2

I had my own Nextcloud and Home Assistant (on a raspberry pi) for years and they're awesome, but I really don't have a use case for specialized stuff like jellyfin or vaultwarden. I just slap my media and a keepass file on my Nextcloud and I'm happy!

Nonsense! The old laptop I run proxmox, home assistant, and most of my containers on is mounted to the wall in the garage, not under the stairs.

Laptops have an integrated UPS!

i uhh yeah host abt 10 containers on an i7 laptop currently. in my small office (kids bedroom) closet. I do also have a 3tb storage available but its what I had … an external wd drive. sigh. i am nbr 3 huh?

Level 4 would be using some sort of off-grid decentralized networking instead of the internet?