Self-hosting does not make your data safe.
If you don't put in place, review, *and test* backup and recovery plans,,and security measures appropriate to the risk, your data are not "safe".
Your data might be less affected by the whims of third parties, which can be valuable for sure, but don't confuse that with your data being "safe".
And I say this as someone who loves self-hosting.
Any "beginners' guide to self-hosting" which doesn't lead with, or at least focus on, security and resiliency, is getting it wrong, IMHO.
#SelfHosting
In all the many years I've run a mail server, I've not had a problem. I send mail, I receive mail. All good.
But it bothers me that this one particular service, of all the many services that I run, is the one most prone to failing because of a decision by one of two companies.
New blogpost: "Bringing up a WireGuard tunnel automatically on boot using nmcli"
A blogpost basically to remind me of:
nmcli connection modify NAME connection.autoconnect yes
Today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is LibreOffice, the amazing free office suit (document editor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, etc).
I know that I've included this in previous #FreeSoftwareAdvent toots, but I use LibreOffice, particularly Writer, every day.
Better still, this one isn't just for Linux users, so if you are thinking about moving away from your Microsoft or Apple office suite, you can give LibreOffice a try, for free, alongside whatever you use currently, and give it a good go before you made a decision.
#LibreOffice
