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| - | ====== The Approach ====== | ||
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| - | **Self-hosting** and **Home-Automation** are something that grow over time, getting more complex and elaborated. You start small, with some recycled hardware and makeshift cables to host some experimental services, then you start self-hosting important stuff. | ||
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| - | But then... | ||
| - | * One day your home internet connection is down and so you find out about **reliability**... | ||
| - | * One day power goes out at home, and you find out that an unexpected server reboot might cause side issues... | ||
| - | * One day, maybe during a hot summer day, your USB network card fails on you, when you are on vacation... | ||
| - | * One day that critical CalDAV service stop working due to a Python update and you miss an appointment... | ||
| - | * One day maybe you get hacked.... | ||
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| - | So you start studying and investing in UPS, reodundant ISPs with failover capability, advanced routing for your services, containers, backup techniques... | ||
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| - | I went trough the process (except i never got hacked, maybe my security measures where good from the beginning, or i was lucky, o maybe i just never noticed?), and you will as well go trough it. | ||
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| - | At the beginning i started out with a very [[selfhost: | ||
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| - | You should stody both ways and pick yours, wihch can even be a good mix of the two, or even a third way that fits you better. | ||
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| - | ==== Basics & Approaches ==== | ||
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| - | No matter which approach you prefer, the following are the **very basics** that i assume you will take into consideration, | ||
| - | * Have a **proper backup plan** in place (see [[selfhost: | ||
| - | * Have **two** ISPs to provide a failsafe internet connection (see [[router: | ||
| - | * Stored your data on some redoundant **RAID array** (see [[selfhost: | ||
| - | * Have an **UPS** solution to protect your server / disk RAIDS from blackouts | ||
| - | * Maybe even have an additional 4G SIM card for **last chance** internet connectivity? | ||
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| - | Still, bad things happens over time, and the above guidelines are just the **bare minimum** that is mandatory to start a self-hosting journey. | ||
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| - | In addition to the above basics, i will illustrate two approaches. One, the simple one, will fit your bill but might prove limited over time. The advanced one, instead, resemble more how things are done at a professional level and offer better reliaiblity and scalability at a higher price range and complexity. | ||
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| - | [[homeautomation|here]]. | ||