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  • I recommend you dont touch network_mode unless you absolutely need it

    Most services shouldnt need the network_mode, just gotta port forward/translate most of the time

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    I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps
  • Google recently had several cases of - which looks to be a developing situation - user personal data losses in the google drive side of operations

    Thats right, the SaaS infrastructure that is based on storing user data on a cloud system lost about months of user data

    Netflix recently also starting pulling toxic, egregious changes such that its basically insulting to people giving money to them

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    What you guys are hosting instead of Nextcloud? I'm sick of it.
  • I used Nextcloud + Samba by the side for awhile, these days I use Samba exclusively, mounting takes basically no time whatsoever and syncthing for synchronization stuff

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    I can relate.
  • Yeah exactly, the assumption is that if they gice you the api key generator, but most with API key requirements dont unfortunately

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    I can relate.
  • You cant call it open source when you need a goddamn API key from a server to do it, because wheres that api generator algorithm?

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    How are so many sites OK with using cloudflare when they are basically a MITM?
  • No, I read it properly, a MITM generally refers to MITM Attack and vice versa in cybersecurity, it is down to the individual to clarify if they meant otherwise and clearly, this case he is referencing to BEING A MITM for malicious purposes

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    How are so many sites OK with using cloudflare when they are basically a MITM?
  • Thats not what a MITM is

    A MITM is a Man-in-the-Middle Attack, someone whom you dont trust or dont know has hijacked your network connection to either read, remove or modify data from your network packets and then proxy-send it to your initial intended target

    Cloudflare is a proxy server, a person you TRUST and designated to passthrough first to scan and check for network security before it redirects and pass your packets through to your intended target, like a gatekeeper

    What, you gonna call all your gatekeepers, your bouncers, your proxy servers a MITM?

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    What selfhosted service have the best "return of investment"
  • The simplest but the most useful: Samba file server

    Well, file servers in general, paired up with a VPN server and you have a literal multi-year use right there

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    Be honest: Are you doing SelfHosting just for the sake of it - or do you have apps, that really improve your daily life?
  • Started out with a simple samba file server for remote editing

    Then expanded into ipsec+ l2tp vpn server, then into ipsec + ikev2, then into wireguard vpm server and its been expanding ever since

    Never stopped since then

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