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by FluffyKitty
2564 days ago
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Is running a server really that cheap if you include the up front costs, maintenance, and your own time? What about the costs of having an offsite backup? As someone who also has their own personal server, I can definitely say it's not cheap. |
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It's annoying, but it's still cheap. What ''up front costs'' do you mean? Maintenance is mostly me struggling with software someone else wrote and wanting to replace it with my own; the smaller services I run, Gopher and Finger, use software I wrote so I need not configure some awful software written by someone else. My goal is to eventually only run services with server software I've written, such as for email and FTP and whatnot. I have spare time and knowing how to maintain a server is useful.
I'm clearly an advanced user, however. Still, I've offered others some things, not that they want them. I could host email for my family and whatnot if I needed to.
>What about the costs of having an offsite backup?
I use scp to transfer it to my machine. It's all measured in single digit megabytes.
>As someone who also has their own personal server, I can definitely say it's not cheap.
Okay. I don't know what you do with yours, but I run email, HTTP, Gopher, Finger, and I want to have FTP and Bittorrent available soon. The email server gives me the most problems, but that's mostly because of other email servers, as I didn't need to do much configuration and it's measured in hours rather than days. The HTTP is preconfigured and I've written the software I use for Gopher and Finger, although I want to replace it with better software I write, later.