Ask HN: Self-hosting in 2023: Nextcloud on Linode, or...?
That&#x27;s a reasonable plan.  And I 100% agree that controlling your data is preferable to having it mined.<p>What frustrates me, and why I don&#x27;t do it any more, is we don&#x27;t have a manageable story for most things.  In many cases there&#x27;s a good recipe you can follow to stand up the basic service.  But hardening, security patching, etc. aren&#x27;t covered.  You have to come up with your own solution to make sure it&#x27;s up, etc.  On top of that, projects come and go, and someone may unfortunately choose a project that&#x27;s a dead end and won&#x27;t be patched.  (And big-budget cloud doesn&#x27;t solve many of these issues, either).<p>My personal fear is that a lot of self-hosted stuff becomes like all the unpatched Wordpress sites, years ago, that were just vectors for hacks.  It wasn&#x27;t that the data was stolen, they were pretty much pwned to launch other attacks.  There are just too many solutions out there for all the bits and pieces needed to keep stuff up and secure.  And all those fiddly bits are hand-integrated (for the most part).  I&#x27;d like to find something that provided me a full stack, with all the boxes checked.  I would get monitoring and security patching around all the bits.<p>In the interim, I try to use products from companies that either don&#x27;t primarily make money by advertising based on my data (even if the products are more expensive).  (Note that advertising is what you do when you&#x27;re out of real ideas - so it&#x27;s inevitable that all companies head that way when MBAs with no imagination want a safe return).  Or, I use products that are (as much as possible) open source.  (There are still disturbing amounts of proprietary blobs in my Raspberry Pi homely servers, for example).<p>With all that said, I wish you luck!  I&#x27;ve run my own infra in the past and it&#x27;s fun.