Comment by brokensegue
4 days ago
it's really not much to manage assuming you are already doing backups. you ~ pay the energy cost either way.
4 days ago
it's really not much to manage assuming you are already doing backups. you ~ pay the energy cost either way.
Lessons from using self hosted image services years ago:
- Upgrade breaks things. Need to restore from DB, install previous version, etc.
- Need to update frequently (i.e. if I wait 2 years, the upgrade script doesn't work).
- Discovering a corruption months/years later. Some data just lost by that point.
- Backward incompatible changes
Of course, if you need the features, by all means use it. I just want to back up my photos and use FolderSync daily. I have a separate workflow for pruning. As long as FolderSync (or some similar app) exists, I know this flow will work 10 years from now (heck, I've been using it for almost as long). No time spent worrying about upgrading, etc.
> Lessons from using self hosted image services years ago:
Alternate title: "Outdated lessons I haven't re-evaluated"
Are you saying there are never backward incompatible changes?
Are you saying there's no need to back up the underlying DB?
Are you saying I can keep an insurance running for, say, three years and it'll be trivial to upgrade after that?
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