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dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.winto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How do services like Mastohost work on a fundamental level?English62·3 months agoCentralization is a weakness. These services can be targeted by governments that want to limit communication. Free speech is a commodity, and servers host this free speech. If a hostile organization, such as a government, targets a channel of free speech such as those hosted on a platform that makes it easy to setup a mastodon instance, this become an easy target that will affect a large portion of users. If you are serious about freedom, you have the freedom to self-host your own platforms.
Edit: I realize my post doesn’t answer the question proposed, but it’s more of an argument against such services. I would argue self-hosting doesn’t rely on paying third-parties to host your software, but I guess this is in the eye of the hoster.
dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.winto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Offices stock the bathrooms with that single ply, sandpaper toilet tissue to discourage employees from pooping on the company dime-- NOT to cut cost.1·4 months agoThat’s why I treat it like a Chuck E. Cheese ticket machine and use about 50 tiles a wipe.
dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.winto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking to start self hosting by going through Louis Rossman's recently released guide. Any pointers for a newbie are most welcome.English10·4 months agoI’d just skip OpenVPN altogether and get started with Wireguard or Headscale/Tailscale.
This one was huge for me. OpenVPN is pretty heavy with CPU overhead, where as wireguard is almost free. I was getting throttled due to the overhead of OpenVPN and roasting the CPU on my Netgear R6350 (it’s what I had lying around). With wireguard I get nearly the same speeds as without a VPN and my loads are very reasonable.
Also with weaker routers like mine, be wary of trying to use QoS, this will probably not help network congestion and instead become a bottleneck (like it did for me). This is where a beefy dedicated router really shines.
Nothing, amazon is a leech. Don’t use amazon.