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Hey guys, I'm new to self-hosting; I'm trying to set up cloud storage to store pics and other content. However, I’m unsure whether to use my old computer, Buy NAS or ResberryPie to set up a home server.

Also, what is the best privacy-friendly OS to use with the home server?

Lastly, do’s and don’ts.

Any help would be appreciated (:

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For home use? Barely any. You can use multiple computers to spread out your load, which is nice for me because I have about 20ish containers running with differing workloads.

But I'm also a developer who needs to keep up on devops, so it's mostly a learning thing for me. But I gotta say it's real nice having everything laid out in a few yaml files that I can tear down and rebuild on a whim

[–] Kaldo@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

having everything laid out in a few yaml files that I can tear down and rebuild on a whim

Oh absolutely, but for me docker compose already does that. Kubernetes might be a good learning exercise but I don't think I need load balancing for 1 user, me, on the home network 😅