I'm trying to change this "self-hosting is hard" claim (and often reality). I believe part of it is that people only use the term "self-hosted" when something is also conplex and difficult to set up.
For example, people don't call is a #SelfHosted hard drive, or synology. It's just a hard drive (or several).
The #HestiaPi is an open source wifi enabled thermostat. I don't call it "self hosted" although it absolutely is. My choice of words isn't some clever marketing ploy, it's just what I think of naturally.
I guess where I am headed with this is that I'd encourage anyone who is promoting the idea that people run their own servers think about how much knowledge and how many skills are involved. Can it be made simpler and still be useful?
I've seen some people do this with full bitcoin nodes that are plug and play, and I think that's great! I want to see more things like that.
Simple, turnkey solutions are what we should be producing. Even the people that have the skills to troubleshoot some server software probably don't *want* to spend their time doing do. So design things that are #resilliant and #simple. So fellow #builders, give me a "heck yeah" if you're with me!
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