I know for many of us every day is selfhosting day, but I liked the alliteration. Or do you have fixed dates for maintenance and tinkering?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

This post is proudly sent from my very own Lemmy instance that runs at my homeserver since about ten days. So far, it’s been a very nice endeavor.

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what’s maintenance? is that when an auto-update breaks everything and you spend an entire weeknight looking up tutorials because you forgot what you did to get this mess working in the first place?

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I do love how little maintenance is needed until you have to re-learn everything you forgot

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Yes

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I know you’re half joking. But nevertheless, I’m not missing this opportunity to share a little selfhosting wisdom.

Never use auto update. Always schedule to do it manually.

Virtualize as many services as possible and take a snapshot or backup before updating.

And last, documentation, documentation, documentation!

Happy selfhosting sunday.

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I think auto update is perfectly fine, just check out what kind of versioning the devs are using and pin the part of the version that will introduce breaking changes.

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I just like it when things break on scheduled maintenance and I have time to fix it or the possibility to roll back with minimal data loss, instead of an auto update forcing me spend a week night fixing it or running a broken system till I have the time.

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No you just continue updating until it’s fixed again.

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I’ve had this happen twice in two weeks since installing Watchtower and have since scheduled it to only run on Friday evening…

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Nothing greater than crashing your weekend evening just trying to watch a movie on a broken jellyfin server :'D

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