Child porn, obviously
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I know this might be a bit controversial, but IMO a beginner should not self host passwords, and at least not the sole backup for photos and videos. I think self hosting them in general is good, but until you know for sure, "Ok, my back-up system is working fine, even if my stuff goes down, I have little downtime for bringing it back up".
If you can't say for sure this is you, Don't self host your passwords, bitwarden is great and encrypted so I highly doubt issues will be had there. Also make sure to use a different/seperate hosting service for pictures. I personally recommend using google drive + rsync since rsync can encrypt all your pictures.
I've seen more then a couple people fail the backup part, even when they thought they were fine before hand.
Mail is a waste of time, and it's take the risk to don't receive important mail in time.
Tor exit node. Too much legal stuff.
More are better. Better for the network and for the security and safety of the users and other nodes
the one you don't use it
I try to NOT self-host any service that:
- Is open-source and provides a hosted solution
- Doesn't have some technical/price requirement (like a media library/photo library where you pay per GB) to use the mentioned hosted version
- if this is the case, I donate to the project I'm using instead
Do you have an example?
"Open Source + hosted" always involves trust, as you can only look into the Github repository, not if the running hosted application is running identically.
Only exception: It's an E2EE encrypted solution, and everything else happens client-side (example: Bitwarden)
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Self-hosted internet is pain in the ass. Cellular services too.
My benchmark is kinda "how annoying or disruptive would it be if it broke and I didn't feel like fixing it for a few days"
So email for example, I could selfhost, but I'd rather just have someone else do it so I don't have to worry about it.
Emails
While mail is definitely doable, imho it's not worth the hassle, you'll always have to maintain it, that's definitely not a launch and forget solution.
Smtp isn't that bad so long as you ensure you're not operating an open relay.
Really bad stuff will happen once exploited and it will take major work on your part to undo ranging from getting removed from block lists like XBL to possibly having to renegotiate your ISP contract if they have to get involved.
| Just too complicated and hard to manage.
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lol.. and now its easy.. i remember doing m4 macros for sendmail, now with postfix its easier than ever.
dont host anything you cant properly secure.
Porn. :-D
Yea, Email is a big one... it'd be kind of pointless, because the person on the other end is NOT using a self-hosted solution, odds are, and it would be a ton of work to maintain, etc., and likely less reliable.
I wouldn't self-host my voicemail server, most likely, either. :P Just no point.