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using building blocks and promoting best practices.*
It is obvious by now that
a deep dependency on proprietary service providers - "the cloud" - is a significant liability.
One aspect often talked about is privacy which is inherently not guaranteed
when using a proprietary service and is a valid concern.
a deep dependency on proprietary service providers - "the cloud" -
is a significant liability.
One aspect often talked about is privacy
which is inherently not guaranteed when using a proprietary service
and is a valid concern.
A more punishing issue is having your account closed or locked
without prior warning.
When that happens, you get an instantaneous sinking feeling in your stomach
at the realization you lost access to your data, possibly without recourse.
without prior warning
When that happens,
you get an instantaneous sinking feeling in your stomach
at the realization you lost access to your data,
possibly without recourse.
Self-hosting is the only alternative that alleviate those concerns
but it requires a lot of technical skills and time.
SelfHostBlocks' and its sibling project [Skarabox][]' goal
is to lower the bar to self-hosting.
SelfHostBlocks is different from other server management projects
because it's main focus is ease of long term maintenance
Hosting services yourself is the obvious alternative
to alleviate those concerns
but it tends to require a lot of technical skills and time.
SelfHostBlocks (together with its sibling project [Skarabox][])
aims to lower the bar to self-hosting,
and provides an opinionated server management system based on NixOS modules
embedding best practices.
Contrary to other server management projects,
its main focus is ease of long term maintenance
before ease of installation.
To achieve this, it provides building blocks to setup services.
Some services are already provided out of the box
and adding custom ones is done easily thanks to those blocks.
Some are already provided out of the box,
and customizing or adding additional ones is done easily.
The building blocks fit nicely together thanks to [contracts](#contracts)
which SelfHostBlocks introduces into nixpkgs.
This will increase modularity, code-reuse and empower end users to
assemble components that fit together to build their server.
which SelfHostBlocks sets out to introduce into nixpkgs.
This will increase modularity, code reuse
and empower end users to assemble components
that fit together to build their server.
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