One of those niche, (presumably?) widely-unknown bugs that is actually extremely relevant to subcommunities of people who play the game - in particular, any decent Minecraft speedrunner is well aware of "boat break" and plays around the possibility.
Part of the reason I love speedrunning games in general is how it tends to bring weird bugs to the forefront of your consciousness, just like this!
Definitely seems to be getting worse, outside of AWS itself, more websites seem to be having sporadic or serious issues. Concerning considering how long the outage has been going.
So for me, extremely anecdotally, I host a few fairly low-importance things on a home server (which is just an old desktop computer left sitting under a desk with Ubuntu slapped on it): A VPN (WireGuard), a few Discord bots, a Twitch bot + some auth stuff, and a few other services that I personally use.
These are the issues I've ran into that have caused downtime in the last few years:
- 1x power outage: if I had set up restart on power, probably would have been down for 30-60 minutes, ended up being a few hours (as I had to manually press the power button lol). Probably the longest non-self-inflicted issue.
- Twitch bot library issues: Just typical library bugs. Unrelated to self-hosting.
- IP changes: My IP actually barely ever changes, but I should set up DDNS. Fixable with self-hosting (but requires some amount of effort).
- Running out of disk space: Would be nice to be able to just increase it.
- Prooooooobably an internet outage or two, now that I think about it? Not enough that it's been a serious concern, though, as I can't think of a time that's actually happened. (Or I have a bad memory!)
I think that's actually about it. I rely fairly heavily on my VPN+personal cloud as all my notes, todos, etc are synced through it (Joplin + Nextcloud), so I do notice and pay a lot of attention to any downtime, but this is pretty much all that's ever happened. It's remarkable how stable software/hardware can be. I'm sure I'll eventually have some hardware failure (actually, I upgraded my CPU 1-2 years ago because it turns out the Ryzen 1700 I was using before has some kind of extremely-infrequent issue with Linux that was causing crashes a couple times a month), but it's really nice.
To be clear, though, for an actual business project, I don't think this would be a good idea, mainly due to concerns around residential vs commercial IPs, arbitrary IPs connecting to your local network, etc that I don't fully pay attention to.
Couldn't agree more, it's been very strange reading through this thread & multiple linked launchpad threads to see how critical people can be of things they themselves can't (or aren't willing to) fix - then the understandably irritated responses being pasted out of context all over.
I don't understand this hypercritical way of looking at things, especially considering how powerful and useful Calibre is. I plugged in a very old e-reader to my computer and tried a variety of things to put books on it; Calibre was the only thing that worked (including the actual ereader software!) I can't imagine how much work something like this would take to maintain.
Part of the reason I love speedrunning games in general is how it tends to bring weird bugs to the forefront of your consciousness, just like this!