Re:Show HN: Snibox – Self-hosted snippets manager
by scrollaway on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:38PM
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> It just sounds like all of the self-hosted services you were using were crap to be honest.
No... they just match up with expectations of what I said: You need backup solutions. Those backup solutions need to work, need to be recoverable. And when a disaster happens, let's say there's a fire at my house, the last thing I want to be doing is spending hours recovering backup. That's a sysadmin's job, not mine.
I don't know why you say IRC "should have a one-click button to set up encrypted backups to a location of your choosing" -- that's not the case of any existing service to my knowledge, possibly not even for photos. And I also wouldn't expect every single self-hosted service developer out there to have to set up something like that, especially given that the development of such a thing requires pretty extensive sysadmin knowledge and self-hosted projects tend to be open-source-volunteer ones.
I'd love to have more things work like git though. Easy mirroring. Decentralized truth. In some way, IPFS, but not for like the entire internet; just for select projects.
No... they just match up with expectations of what I said: You need backup solutions. Those backup solutions need to work, need to be recoverable. And when a disaster happens, let's say there's a fire at my house, the last thing I want to be doing is spending hours recovering backup. That's a sysadmin's job, not mine.
I don't know why you say IRC "should have a one-click button to set up encrypted backups to a location of your choosing" -- that's not the case of any existing service to my knowledge, possibly not even for photos. And I also wouldn't expect every single self-hosted service developer out there to have to set up something like that, especially given that the development of such a thing requires pretty extensive sysadmin knowledge and self-hosted projects tend to be open-source-volunteer ones.
I'd love to have more things work like git though. Easy mirroring. Decentralized truth. In some way, IPFS, but not for like the entire internet; just for select projects.