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What about home-brewn? Buy a 8TB hard disk for ~200EUR (source: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=hde7s https://geizhals.eu/?cat=hde7s), a cheap computer like an Intel N
by ktpsns 9y ago
What about home-brewn? Buy a 8TB hard disk for ~200EUR (source: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=hde7s https://geizhals.eu/?cat=hde7s), a cheap computer like an Intel NUC, Raspberry PI or Mini-ITX based one (another 200EUR) and you have a reasonable online system which you can run at home. Then you can still order a long-term backup service (such as Amazon glacier -- or just encode your data as photos and store them for free at Google photos) with the big advantage that you can encrypt your data before uploading them there.
- terminalcommand 9y agoOr better yet buy a bunch of cheaper 2TB hard drives configure them as RAID with redundancy. Or you could use ZFS for extra fun. If you're going to host this at home you'll probably want/need a firewall, I hear OpenBSD is great in that area.
- ktpsns 9y agoValid points, but they raise the initial hurdle. I run a dead simple and cheap (<200EUR) NAS at home for 5 years, just connected to the internet with DynDNS and masqueraded tcp ports http and ssh from my local internet uplink. I made regular backups to a USB hard drive. It was cheap, fast at home and usable from remote. Using only 20W, it was also reasonable cheap, roughly 40 EUR/year of energy costs, so over 5 years the system costed 6 EUR/month. For this I did not only get lot's of storage but also a reasonable computer to host arbitrary services on. Today, you would probably classify this as indiweb or decentralized. I would just call it DiyO and always prefer it against some subscription.