I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

  • this_is_routerEnglish
    33•1 year ago

    Your own nextcloud instance. Then move everything that is saved at Google over to your own server.

    Calenders, Filesync, Contacts sync with android works really nice.

    Knowing my data is stored only on my own devices and google doesn’t know more about me than I do is a nice feeling.

    • @[email protected]English
      13•1 year ago

      My biggest fear of hosting my own important data is losing it to some hardware failure. Currently I mitigate this issue by mirroring my NAS data to onedrive (with encryption)

    • end0flineEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      I’ve tried this once or twice but always end up not using it because I don’t trust myself to keep a server up.

      Would you consider hosting your own Nextcloud through a provider like Hetzner a nice intermediary step?

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        Yes. Hetzner’s offering is reliable and not too expensive. You do trade off a lot of the privacy and flexibility though.

      • MidasEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Just got to have a backup. I have children so for pictures anything Google is just not doable. Nextcloud on my home NAS, nightly backup to Amazon Glacier (super cheap to store because it’s expensive to retrieve) in case of a catastrophic failure (like fire). Every month or so backup the files to an external drive.

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      While I like this suggestion I’d be careful if you’re just getting started: you don’t want to end up losing data if this is your only copy. Make sure to have proper backups if you have data you can’t afford to lose. You could even encrypt it and upload it to Dropbox/google drive

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 year ago

        If you do this make sure you have a good backup solution in place. Don’t be like me running a nextcloud instance on a single disk server and when the disk died I lost everything. I’ve since moved to a parity based backup solution.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 year ago

          Yikes, thanks for the tip. That would be terrible! Do you have some documentation or example of the backup solution you now use?

          • @[email protected]English
            1•1 year ago

            I run SnapRAID on top of Drivepool on a windows machine. You could use SnapRAID with something like mergerfs on Linux if you wanted. I have two pools (10 data, 3 parity) and a (3 data, 1 parity). With snapraid I run pool syncs nightly and scrub (~3% nightly to cover the entire array monthly).I tried unRAID first and liked it, but there were some issues with my LSI controller resulting in poor write speed, I was never able to figure it out. I’ve been running the Drivepoo/SnapRAID combination now for ~6 years or so. I’ve had to rebuild two drives from parity in that time and it was painless (a config file edit and two commands).