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Aliexpress link to buy one?

Yes, it's slightly worse for local results. But pretty good for most other searches.

Open source also needs a business model to be sustainable. So I'm not a fan of doing price comparisons with some similar commercial SaaS. Competing on control, transparency, community, flexibility and support will be better long-term.

At least that's my vision for http://pikapods.com, which allows for convenient FOSS hosting, while sharing revenue with the original project and avoiding any lock-in.

Been looking into this recently and one really needs 3 types of exercise:

- strength/resistance training: to build and keep muscles; one benefit of which is better stability at age and metabolic regulation.

- high intensity cardio/HIIT/zone 5/95+% max heart rate: to build VO2max, was also shown to reduce arterial plaque.

- normal cardio/zone 2/50-80% max HR: mitochondrial efficiency, fat burning?, endurance, memory (the current link)

Good frequencies seem to be 3x/week for normal cardio and strength, and 1x/week for HIIT.

A fourth could be stability/stretching/yoga-style exercises. I'm doing those on cardio days currently.

Not easy really. Though anything is better than nothing, so don't stress.

Those are probably SGD, not USD. So a bit less, but still a considerable damage.

I built my billing system on top of Django and it's used in 2 online services for a few thousand users and hundreds of invoices a month.

You have to be mindful of some edge cases, but if the scope is kept narrow, it's doable. The added benefit is the flexibility to fit it to your use case. And with Python, you get many high-level libraries, e.g. for decimal calculations and PDF generation.

Still remember being introduced to it in 2005 while working in the UK as sailing instructor for a summer job. An older guy showed me how he automated cataloging his grandma's possessions for auction with it, which deeply fascinated me.

Back home, after lots of trial and error, I used it to run a mail- and webserver for my first business.

Immich is making fast progress and is a great alternative to PhotoPrism for pictures, since the UI is more similar to Google Photos. Just the memory usage is still a bit high.

At https://pikapods.com, we revenue share with the author (Alex) and provide hosting for less technical users. So hoping to see it grow and improve further.

RSS feed would be nice for those who prefer that over email. Otherwise looks great!

Together with the new payout fee this is a +46% increase for charging USD cards. 2.9% to 4.25%.

A bit like me. Got started setting up a webshop for my first startup and had to learn Apache and PHP.

If anyone with similar skills (Python, Docker, Shell) reads this and looks do get started, do check out our Google Summer of Code projects for this year. You'll get paid and can pick any task in this field: https://github.com/borgbase/vorta/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code...

Giving only one option per category may not be enough. There are usually several great FOSS apps for each, targeting different uses. Some more choices here: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

The other issue is that most users won't maintain their own server or keep up with security updates and such. That's why I launched https://pikapods.com, which allows anyone to run FOSS apps with a few clicks, while supporting app authors via our revenue share. Our 'app store' is here: https://www.pikapods.com/apps

> a bad actor using your site as a testing ground for stolen cards

Happened to me when launching a new site. Quickly refunded all payments, but still had to pay the fees.

3 replacements in Malaysia and Dubai. Each took about a week each. Unfortunately I won't get anything, being outside the US.

Personally, I think the combination of blog, newsletter and optional monetization is a good fit for many.

They are still pushing FOSS adoption and publish bugfixes regularly. The aim just isn't to have many cheap hosting users directly.

Not speaking for the project here. Just what I understood from conversations with devs.

Ghost is run by a foundation with a hard limit on revenue. They don't need more users at this point.

At PikaPods we have Ghost and WordPress to run with a few clicks. Comes with a subdomain, but can also add your own domain:

https://www.pikapods.com/apps#blog

What I meant was that there are people who don't run ZFS, but still need backups. So it won't work for everyone.

Even for my own use cases, not every server and system I maintain could use ZFS right away.

Still good to know about the encrypted volume feature. Will be sure to test this next year.

Probably. My benchmark was mostly to compare Borg v1.2 and v2 and some network optimizations. Restic was a stretch goal really.

For Kopia, I do try it once a year, but I still find the docs and CLI args confusing. Running the server part behind a reverse proxy needs 2x HTTPS and searching the forum to get it somewhat working. For a webdav target, the progress display doesn't really work and it's not possible to cancel a backup run. So for now I'm observing and will retry next year.

Remote ZFS replication kinda does. But the offsite backup wouldn't be encrypted and not everyone is using ZFS. So it's not for all situations.

I recently wrote up my strategy for backing up local containers with Borg & Borgmatic here: https://docs.borgbase.com/setup/borg/containers/

Borgmatic will beautifully deal with DB dumps and there is a popular container image to run it. As for the cache ("retrieve some metadata about previous backup from S3"), you don't need to keep it locally. It can be restored from the backup repository.

Hope some of this applies to your K8s setup.

Likely next year after 1-2 RCs. It's at beta4 currently.

Yepp. Version 2 got rid of lots of legacy code and cleaned up CLI args a bit. Will be around 5 to 20% faster than the v1.2 branch.

https://github.com/borgbase/benchmarks

Borg is surprisingly fast and memory-efficient, even when compared to Restic, which is written in Go. Recently did a benchmark to test the upcoming Borg v2 and this surprised me the most:

https://github.com/borgbase/benchmarks

Said differently: good decisions save time in the future, bad decisions keep on wasting time.

The goal is to compound the benefits of good decisions.

Yes, it's stable. They even added compression this year. We just added support for Restic on BorgBase.com. Will have more user feedback in a few months, but first tests and benchmarks are pretty encouraging.

At BorgBase.com the largest Borg repo we host is about 70 TB. Still manageable with server-side pruning. Mostly larger files from what the user told me.

We just added support for Restic too. Using Nginx with HTTP/2. Fastest combination I've seen so far. So very excited to offer two great options now.

I was always interested in IT, but studied business instead because my parents thought IT would be too stressful.

Ended up programming a distributed simulation optimization tool for my master thesis (in business), while already doing multiple online startups.

Do I regret not studying CS and following a SWE career? I really don't know because many skills from the business side have served me well too. Would I have started those companies without understanding customers, marketing, accounting, taxation, investing?

So I try not to regret things because I don't know the alternate timeline. Could be better, could be worse.

I started PikaPods (https://www.pikapods.com/) a few months before the announcement as a simple way to throw up some open source web apps. Part of the mission is also to provide an additional revenue source for FOSS authors with our revenue sharing program.

Since then the project has seen good traction and we run a few thousand apps in two regions, EU and US.

Anyone still looking for an Heroku alternative, do check us out! There is some free welcome credit to get started quickly.