> After a few instances of my wife saying “X isn’t working” and needing to restart a service manually
This seemed like a good point of the article to mention that when self-hosting you need to consider bus factor.
Can your wife retrieve the family photos off of Immich if you die suddenly? If you die suddenly these will become even more important than they are now.
This is why my self-hosting is mostly for my own needs and not something the whole family depends on. I still use a cloud hosted photos service (Ente photos) and mostly use the NAS for a self-hosted backup.
If I die my family can just unplug my junk and get AT&T to turn the router/modem back to normal WiFi mode and throw my OpnSense box in the estate sale.
This seemed like a good point of the article to mention that when self-hosting you need to consider bus factor.
Can your wife retrieve the family photos off of Immich if you die suddenly? If you die suddenly these will become even more important than they are now.
This is why my self-hosting is mostly for my own needs and not something the whole family depends on. I still use a cloud hosted photos service (Ente photos) and mostly use the NAS for a self-hosted backup.
If I die my family can just unplug my junk and get AT&T to turn the router/modem back to normal WiFi mode and throw my OpnSense box in the estate sale.