My benchmark is kinda "how annoying or disruptive would it be if it broke and I didn't feel like fixing it for a few days"
So email for example, I could selfhost, but I'd rather just have someone else do it so I don't have to worry about it.
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Plex. Despite everything be supposedly self hosted, they are spying on what you're watching and sharing that info with 3rd parties, your friends and your family.
Use Kodi instead or if you're old school like me, an old fashioned smb share running on a pi.
I agree with the sentiment but Kodi isn't really a direct replacement for a plex server, it's a client replacement. You want Jellyfin or at least a mysql backend for Kodi to get the shared watched status and such.
I wasn't aware you could do something like this on kodi, i remember it being basically just a client for viewing content, not a web based server
Or just one of the alts like Emby or Jellyfin.
Child porn, obviously
Mail is a waste of time, and it's take the risk to don't receive important mail in time.
Self-hosted internet is pain in the ass. Cellular services too.
I try to NOT self-host any service that:
- Is open-source and provides a hosted solution
- Doesn't have some technical/price requirement (like a media library/photo library where you pay per GB) to use the mentioned hosted version
- if this is the case, I donate to the project I'm using instead
Do you have an example?
"Open Source + hosted" always involves trust, as you can only look into the Github repository, not if the running hosted application is running identically.
Only exception: It's an E2EE encrypted solution, and everything else happens client-side (example: Bitwarden)
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the one you don't use it
While mail is definitely doable, imho it's not worth the hassle, you'll always have to maintain it, that's definitely not a launch and forget solution.
Smtp isn't that bad so long as you ensure you're not operating an open relay.
Really bad stuff will happen once exploited and it will take major work on your part to undo ranging from getting removed from block lists like XBL to possibly having to renegotiate your ISP contract if they have to get involved.
| Just too complicated and hard to manage.
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lol.. and now its easy.. i remember doing m4 macros for sendmail, now with postfix its easier than ever.
dont host anything you cant properly secure.
Mail server, too many troubles related to domaine name blocking/ban, good for internal network/VPN use but not for anything serious