I’ve seen a lot of people saying things that amount to “those tech nerds need to understand that nobody wants to use the command line!”, but I don’t actually think that’s the hardest part of self-hosting today. I mean, even with a really slick GUI like ASUSTOR NASes provide, getting a reliable, non-NATed connection, with an SSL certificate, some kind of basic DDOS protection, backups, and working outgoing email (ugh), is a huge pain in the ass.

Am I wrong? Would a Sandstorm-like GUI for deploying Docker images solve all of our problems? What can we do to reshape the network such that people can more easily run their own stuff?

  • mtset@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Wow, yeah, that sounds like a really frustrating situation. I wish you all the luck in figuring it out.

    • YuzuDrink@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I got it working! I’m fortunately, I know a kindly professional who took pity on me and showed me the secrets of Cloudflare free-tier, and we did work something out.

      I have had to learn SO MUCH in just the last week, though, it’s crazy intense!