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A comment on Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to your email address?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by ramtatatam on Saturday December 07, 2024 @12:24PM (#42351198)
I self-host. And then I backup everything to my RAID6 NAS. And then, though irregularly, backup to offline media.

I sometimes read comments on this very forum, that hosting your own email server is risky and requires lots of work. I agree it's not for everyone - you need to have some knowledge of how to run and secure your service on the internet. I self-host since roughly 2011-2012 and cannot say I spent tons of time on it.

It does cost some money though, I pay $5 monthly to run my Nanode (on Linode), and then something around $30 a year to keep my domain.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by fph on Saturday December 07, 2024 @04:53PM (#42353130)
All your backups are on-site then?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by ramtatatam on Saturday December 07, 2024 @07:43PM (#42354073)
I assume when you mention `on-site` you mean my house - yep, NAS is at home.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by fph on Sunday December 08, 2024 @11:07AM (#42357876)
What happens if a fire at your house destroys both your computer and the NAS? Or if a thief steals both? Are your data permanently lost?
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by qwer1234321 on Sunday December 08, 2024 @07:00PM (#42361844)
If my house cought fire my NAS burns, and that's fine. If I survive the fire I can still access my email. If I don't Linode shuts it down month later, so it's good for the planet too ;)
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by jasmes on Monday December 09, 2024 @12:05AM (#42363205)
I think the idea was more like... if you can afford a RAID6 NAS at home you can afford Backblaze so don't be silly and get some offsite redundancy going.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage the risk of losing access to yo... by qwer1234321 on Monday December 09, 2024 @03:34AM (#42364135)
Thank you for drawing my attention to this, I was not aware of Backblaze! I'll have to deduplicate my backups (of backups of backups) and will definitely look into saving most precious bits!
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