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I have some Raspberry Pis that I self host stuff on. Gitlab on one, Runtipi on another, and pi-hole + Nginx + a game I made on a third. Some of it is publicly accessible on my own domains, but the only traffic I actually get is from myself.

I connect my Pis to my WiFi router and I've struggled with the adapters, so a POE switch might be interesting. I should containerize stuff, but I enjoy running it directly as well. I need to figure out backups some day.

The biggest issue I've had is that I've lost 3 SD cards in 6 years. Twice due to power failure, and once to heavy disk writes. I can't stand randomly losing stuff and having to re-setup a pi, so I switched to booting from USB SSDs. I haven't had an issue since. The cost is a bit obnoxious since I don't trust a cheap drives, but the perceived peace of mind is nice.

Has anyone else had this issues with losing SD cards while self hosting on Pis?

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