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Before anyone says “you put all your eggs in one basket,” let me be clear: I didn’t. I put them in one provider, with what should have been bulletproof redundancy
This shouldn’t happen and the OOP clearly knows what he was doing but putting everything in a single provider with multiple services clearly is not redundancy.
“i didn’t put all my eggs in one basket, i put them multiple metal boxes… that i paid the same guy to hold for me. it’s different.”
Platform decay strikes again.
Bezos and the shareholders weren’t happy with AWS already being one of the single most profitable products in human history, because capitalism demands unending infinite year-on-year growth.
Whenever you hear them cry that capitalism breeds innovation, the kinds of innovation they’re talking about are this shitty AI profit-maximising algorithm that created OOP’s problem. This isn’t a crazy conspiracy theory either; I’ve consulted in the software dev teams of dozens of major multinationals and the projects were always, without exception, some variant on “how can we replace people” or “how can we reduce costs by doing something slightly worse”.
I really need to start backups of my S3 bucket and my Hetzner Server to a local hard drive.
More reason that other countries developing smaller, regional cloud providers is a good thing. Part of the reason AWS thinks they can get away with this is that there are 2-3 other providers they compete with, and moving is onerous. If there were 200+ cloud providers, there would almost certainly be a standard set of tools and much better customer service.
The cloud is, and always has been, merely other people’s computers.
Their only legitimate use case is as disposable, transient, dumb nodes and synapses of a system you retain control and agency of.
It’s truly amazing that Amazon is able to convince anyone that it’s a good idea to store valuable business data on their computers
Just stop thinking your shit is safe in the “cloud” people. It isn’t. And trusting in a single company to have your back, or even care about you is naive at best.
Why I have everything backed up on a hard drive of my own. Wish could build my own server, but don’t have the funds at this time. But pretty close just starting my own internet.
You can run a basic server with an old laptop, desktop, mini-pc, anything. Everyone starts somewhere. If you eventually need ‘more’ or ‘better’, you can figure things out then. Getting started with a used office PC for 40$ off eBay (or anything old you already have) is fine. Just get started.
some home nas can also be budget friendly… or some vps, where you can start small and scale up on-the-fly when you need it.
I have an old Toshiba laptop that put Linux on, I wouldn’t mind turning into a server. I want to build a new gaming rig, then I can take my current rig and turn it into a big server. Definitely like to just wire me and my two sons rigs into our own private network.
JFC this poor dev.
Luckily many of my jobs or clients don’t like AWS and have gone elsewhere. One of my projects is self-hosted (with an off-site backup).
I wish this person the best moving forward, I didn’t recommend AWS before, but I’ll definitely make sure to push against it now.
This stuff terrifies me. I’m de-googling as fast as I can and reviewing all my local backups plus add encryption to what stays in the cloud.
The legal battle over arbitrary exclusion is a difficult fight by innocent victims.
Not having backups is a confession by morons with nobody to blame but themselves.
These two things can coincide.
This is not the story of a person with no backups. It’s the story of a person with partial backups.
Be careful before you blame the victim, and if you’re going to do so anyway, at least be accurate about it.
Eh, the author definitely has more responsibility than he makes out. He’s fully aware that it wasn’t suitable as a backup for all of his stuff (like the book he was writing and all the tutorials), but acts like that shouldn’t matter because he wanted to use it that way to make his desktop workflow better.
Yeah thats what happens when you host your shit on some corporate “cloud”, but will they learn from this and move to self hosting, or will they just find some smaller provider who can do the same rug pull again.
Well teach me the way to self host on the cheap?
Id be happy to, what kind of services are you wanting to run and whats your home internet setup?
I can message here on lemmy but it might be easier if you want to contact me directly through chat, my contact info can be found here: https://gravitywell.xyz/#contact
Oh nothing special just want to store my music, videos, and games, along with documents and have access to them from anywhere. I have gig a blast with Cox, and I also wouldn’t mind hosting my own websites. Instead of paying for hosting to Siteground.com that can’t even allow me to use Javascript in my code without costing hundreds of dollars a month.
Hosting A basic website (with javascript) is a great place to start.
I mainly use docker for everything and you can get a simple http server docker point it at a folder containing your html files and now you have your own selfhosted website.
Use something like duckdns.org for a domain and dyndns to update the ip address to point to your home ip and have your router forward the http port, now your website can be accessed from outside the home network too.
Once you get a basic website working, its easy to keep going and try adding new services. I use dockge to manage all my docker services now but when i first got started i found dockstarter to be very easy to use, kind of like training wheels for docker until you feel comfortable enough to edit compose files directly.
I currently pay $8/month for a basic VPS which i use because i have a lot of public services but if you are just managing your own stuff or another user or 2 you dont even need that really.
For document storage id go with Nextcloud. If you want to also have dedicated music streaming i really like mStream for its simplicty but theres also a number of other services that support the subsonic protocol which has a lot of good clients to choose from for playback.
Thanks I try that out.
If my years have taught me anything, it’s the latter.
Probably some of both
