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Re:Start Self Hosting by lou1306 on Thursday March 24, 2022 @05:34AM (#30787740)
It would take one hell of an incentive to make someone with

* No previous tech knowledge

* A full-time job

* No external help

learn systemd, or how to setup and maintain a web server, or whatever. Individuals may still self-host of course, but I'm skeptical people will do it en masse anytime soon. After all, if the entry barrier weren't so high, we wouldn't have an entire service industry that does this for you (SquareSpace, Wix, Substack...)

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Re:Start Self Hosting by jethro_tell on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:50AM (#30789025)
I think most of the people on r/selfhosted aren't super technical. Lots of them install a snap or docker container with a web UI for self hosting and they are off to the races.
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Re:Start Self Hosting by majewsky on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:19AM (#30789336)
Looking at the /r/selfhosted crowd comes with some serious survivorship bias though. It's not considering the (potentially large) group of people who would like to self-host, but don't even make it to /r/selfhosted or similar forums.
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Re:Start Self Hosting by jethro_tell on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:36AM (#30790424)
Sure, but let's be real, if your going to slef host you'll need to be able to do a bit of that.

Would be nice if there were more little appliances that handle stuff like this so someone could just buy it at best buy or whatever and plug it in next to the router.

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