Post #4122243
2026-07-26 21:44 UTC
If you are #selfhosting / #homelabbing: you have my utmost respect. Do not trust other parties to have your back - because they don't.
However, few words to the wise: if you operate a minimalist setup - eg everything running in VMs on a single host: please do consider the consequences of downtime.
You probably don't want to run your critical services on one machine without a fallback. If those services include your smarthome foundation, DNS and firewalling: you don't want to troubleshoot in the dark because everything is down and you can't even turn on the light anymore.
You aren't the first nor won't be the last to learn this lesson when disaster strikes though :flan_XD:
Replies (3)
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@michaelharley@infosec.exchange 2026-07-26 22:21
@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social Yes, learned this lesson the hard way as well. my DNS stays on my Unifi controller and HomeAssistant stays on it's own hardware. Then, downtime on the proxmox host is less impactful for me.
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@jana@social.jsteuernagel.de 2026-07-26 22:05
@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social I have suffered from the consequences of minor parts of my setup failing and it was already pretty bad. And even now I am still in dire need to improve things, but I'm building the foundation of something which should allow me to more rapidly fallback to some other system, if stuff breaks. Excited to finally set those plans into motion.
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@jordan@mastodon.subj.am 2026-07-26 22:12
@h3artbl33d@exquisite.social All in the practice of independence in your technology.