Self-hosted analytics and the infrastructure cost of privacy

11 days ago by TheIPW to c/selfhosted

I’ve spent years preaching privacy, yet here I am installing a tracker. No, this isn’t a sellout, I just self-hosted Rybbit. Here is the transparent breakdown.

My blog has been up and running for a few months now and I wanted to have a better idea of what sort of visitor numbers I was getting but as it is a blog about FOSS, self-hosting and privacy I wasn't just about to hand data to Google.

I managed to set up a self hosted instance of Rybbit but it was a bit heavier resource wise than other options I have looked at so I had to have a major overhaul in my Proxmox node layout!

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sem 13 points 11 days ago

Idk why but I'm allergic to the phrase "the wife"

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Pomal 2 points 11 days ago

Possessive nouns over people are annoying af, mad get it. It’s not supposed to come off that way but, words mean things.

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