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!
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.
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)
Just make sure to keep a backup. Google has them (effectively), you should too.
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
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?
Yes. Hetzner’s offering is reliable and not too expensive. You do trade off a lot of the privacy and flexibility though.
Oh this sounds amazing. Do you have a link with more info so we can check it out?