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I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it's been a very nice endeavor.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

I know you're half joking. But nevertheless, I'm not missing this opportunity to share a little selfhosting wisdom.

Never use auto update. Always schedule to do it manually.

Virtualize as many services as possible and take a snapshot or backup before updating.

And last, documentation, documentation, documentation!

Happy selfhosting sunday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

I think auto update is perfectly fine, just check out what kind of versioning the devs are using and pin the part of the version that will introduce breaking changes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I just like it when things break on scheduled maintenance and I have time to fix it or the possibility to roll back with minimal data loss, instead of an auto update forcing me spend a week night fixing it or running a broken system till I have the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can have the best of both worlds - scheduled auto updates on a time that usually works for you.

With growing complexity, there are so many components to update, it's too easy to miss some in my experience. I don't have everything automated yet (in fact, most updates aren't) but I definitely strive towards it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

In my experience, the more complex a system is, the more auto updates can mess things up and make troubleshooting a nightmare. I'm not saying auto updates can't be a good solution in some cases, but in general I think it's a liability. Maybe I'm just at the point where I want my setup to work without the risk of it breaking unexpectedly and having to tinker with it when I'm not in the mood. :)