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Written by d00phy on 2024-11-01 at 11:42

Anyone still use "traditional" shared hosting?

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Written by poVoq on 2024-11-01 at 12:10

You can always encrypt the backups you upload there.

Depending on the specs of the shared webspace it is possible to install some php based webdav software to easily sync files with it. KaraDAV for example.

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Written by Strit on 2024-11-01 at 12:26

I technically still have a hosted website, but it’s rarely updated anymore. It’s very low priority compared to my self-hosted stuff.

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Written by d00phy on 2024-11-01 at 13:39

Same. I have a mediawiki install on the shared hosting still, but I haven’t updated it in forever. For the $10.99/month I’m paying for shared hosting, I could save a little and do a more powerful VPS to host similiar stuff… Of just keep doing what I’m doing w/ my S12 pro & Synology. Might look at some kind of failover down the road.

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Written by Passerby6497@lemmy.world on 2024-11-01 at 12:46

If there was a way I could leverage the unlimited bandwidth/storage as an offsite backup, that would be amazing, but I’m not sure it would be a great idea backing up stuff to a webserver where there best security I can add it via an .htaccess file.

Your off-site backup solution shouldn’t have to care about that level of security because you should be encrypting your backups before they leave your network. Even if you have a solid backup host in the cloud, you still want to encrypt your backup data before you send it to their hosted repo.

Unless your vendor has a reason to read your backups, they shouldn’t be able to.

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Written by d00phy on 2024-11-01 at 13:37

Fair point. Currently, everything that requires off-site backup is sent to my father’s Synology using hyperbackup. So off-site is sorta self-hosted already. Was thinking in terms of a second fallback option.

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Written by Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 2024-11-01 at 13:36

As others said, encrypt your backup before sending it to your server. And can’t you upload the files to a folder outside of a document root or better outside of the www folder so there is no way to access it through the web server service?

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Written by d00phy on 2024-11-01 at 14:41

I can upload files outside of the docroot, but if they stay there for too long, I get a nasty email from Dreamhost reminding me that this is for web space and not offsite storage (something they also sell). I haven’t tried uploading something inside the docroot and just setting permissions to 400 or something!

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Written by catloaf@lemm.ee on 2024-11-01 at 13:40

Yes, through Namecheap. Right now it’s just hosting my personal site on WordPress, but I’m going to switch that soon due to Matt Mullenweg’s drama or just take it down entirely.

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Written by dugmeup@lemmynsfw.com on 2024-11-01 at 20:36

I read the details. He has a decent reason to ask WP to pay as they got brought by private equity and significantly dropped their contributions to the WordPress which is open source and hence relies on the community to feed back into the product.

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Written by catloaf@lemm.ee on 2024-11-01 at 21:38

Ask, sure. Sue, maybe. Commandeer extensions, absolutely not.

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Written by Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 2024-11-01 at 13:54

Oh and regarding the large TIF files, what limits are you hitting? Most hosters allow to change the php settings like memory limit or max execution time.

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Written by d00phy on 2024-11-01 at 14:39

I haven’t played w/ memory limits, but when I tried messing w/ buld download of raw TIF files, it ran out of memory pretty quick. I may look into what I can to about the limits, though.

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Written by lorentz@feddit.it on 2024-11-02 at 11:01

I did some experiments in the past. The nicer option I could find was enabling webdav API on the hosting side (it was an option on cPanel if I recall correctly, but there are likely other ways to do it). These allow using the webserver as a remote read/write filesystem. After you can use rclone to transfer files, the nice part is that rclone supports client side encryption so you don’t have to worry too much about other people accessing files.

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Written by d00phy on 2024-11-02 at 13:23

This is really helpful. I’ll look into that. Thanks!

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Written by solrize@lemmy.ml on 2024-11-03 at 08:09

$11/m is a lot. If you just want a small site on shared hosting, try namecrane.com. For storage use Hetzner Storage Box.

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