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Why use an external cloud? While its technically still kind of self its not self hosted anymore IMHO. You would still be running your services, but on somebody else, rented, hardware. While I do the same for a few services (like email), i wouldn't suggest it for general services that you want to reside on your turf (like immich, music, 'arrs, passwords, whatever)
Why wouldn’t you recommend it? I’m running my VPS for many of those services just fine. It’s technically not selfhosted, because I’m not doing the infrastructure, but the end result is the same besides not owning the hardware and paying for the electricity bill.
Mostly because my files stay on my hardware, on my network. In case of internet down/broken/filtered I can still access all my data. That is one of the points of self hosting. Not the only one, granted, and maybe not even the most critical, but having the opportunity, better to host on your turf.
Go ahead the self host on a cloud somewhere, nothing bad about that! Have fun, enjoy, learn and be digitally independent is the core of self hosting.
Yeah, I get it. I’d like to try a Raspberry Pi setup sometime. Maybe some home automation stuff. But I don’t require much and don’t want a server rack. I’m a developer, not a network engineer.
I have almost 50 containers running on a £75 used mini pc from Ebay, chucked in the bottom of a cupboard. Anyone that tells you you need a giant server rack to self host is a gatekeeping moron
I do wonder about the electricity cost, though. I did some very rudimentary calculations once (so could have been way off) and found that my VPS at 7 euro a month with 500 GB SSD isn’t takt that expensive in comparison, could even be cheaper.
My NUC didn’t cost 75$ when I bought it new back then but can absolutely be found for less now. And it runs 40+ containers as well. I wouldn’t imagine a need for a big rack setup (for me). Potentially a newer NUC someday, but it’s hard to find a good excuse to switch.
I'm confused - I was asking if it was possible to run Cosmos Cloud in a VM for easy remote access. I'm not using any external cloud services am I? I'm not paying for anything
Ok, i misunderstood!
No worries - I was just starting to worry myself that Cosmos was routing stuff through their server 😅 but looking into it more I think they automate Samba