Actually went to a theatre to see it. I like my films to be open to interpretation, not barely intelligible. Didn’t have a lot to talk about on the way home from that screening.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. -Henry David Thoreau

CloudFlared is the application you run on your server, and CloudFlare tunnels are what it connects with. You get the same outcome as a ddns but it functions differently under the hood. You also need a domain name for this I think.

DuckDNS might be a good option to start out with.

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A combination of glusterfs, keepalived, and docker swarm might be for you.

Glusterfs to create a persistent storage pool for access from all nodes. Keepalived to create one dynamic and highly available network address to point everything external to. Docker swarm for the benefits of a cluster without all the k8s.

I think nexcloud lets you set quotas for user storage space.

Thinking about risk as a relatively new self hoster myself, there are two things that are out of my personal comfort zone for self hosting: nextcloud and password managers.

Enticing my own family and friends to my nextcloud instance is hard when I can’t guarantee their data will be 100% safe from accidents and loss. I chose to use a service like hetzner storage share (a hosted nextcloud instance), because it’s their business to handle all the risk.

As far as backup goes, if you want to self host, reduce your risk by following the 321 backup rule. Make a plan to invest in a rock solid backup strategy. I have high availability through a parity drive, and I use duplicati to send a weekly backup to the cloud of my entire unraid appdata folder. I sync my nextcloud instance to an unraid share. And once in a blue moon I copy important things to an external hard drive.

I feel like many people go for a cheap unlimited upload backup provider like backblaze, and reduce the risk of having to pay for downloading the backups from them by ensuring high availability and backup at home.

Embrace the dark side expressing yourself without the perfection filter of spellcheck. Those squiggly red lines want you to be someone youre not. Punctuation prevents you from being you. Spell things your own way. Make up your own words.