Hey,
I know it sucks to rely on cloud services but it is what it is. I use Apple iCloud, Bitwarden and GitHub.
Technically, I could self-host all three but I want my backups not at my place or at least have them in both places cloud/at home.
I do have two spare Raspberry Pi Zero 2W and one small computer with an old i5 / 8 GB RAM.
What do you personally self-host?
I think the only thing that makes me worry a little bit is that Microsoft has my source code. It’s not “bad” but sometimes I think about it. So I probably need a gitea instance then.
Edit: it’s interesting that you mentioned private messenger. I just built one (using Bluetooth Mesh routing with a basic encryption for 1-on-1 chats) and am waiting for App Store approval. :)
Forgejo is what you should use nowadays: https://lwn.net/Articles/963095/
FWIW, other public git instances exist. As in alternatives to github. No need to selfhost.
You can host git anywhere you have ssh or https. I don’t know if you can push over https though.
I know that. My point is: you don’t have to.
Encrypt before backing it up remotely.
Not sure that really works for git though… at least with regards to it’s primary usage.
git isn’t just a backup… it’s about version control.
IE the point is if you know what you are doing, you realize this function isn’t working in this edge case, you can search through and find out, when did this part of this file change… and what was it before, and it will basically find exactly that.
If you encrypted it so that git couldn’t actually read the contents, then you basically reduced a crazy powerful tool, into a glorified dropbox. (IE yeah you could revert back to previous versions… but you’d basically be counting on your memory for what you changed when, if the git server can’t read the files).
Good point and teaches me to be too quick to respond. Cheers!