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Ask HN: Storing financials/sensitive information on a VPS?
I want to build my wife and I a front-end for managing our financials, registrations, insurances etc.
I have a decent system to scan all relevant documents and make them available on Google Drive. But since I'm the one sorting and filing, it doesn't scale so well when I need to share info with other family members.
What considerations should be taken into account to making sensitive information available over the web on a small Digital Ocean droplet?
- LinuxBender 8y agoI would suggest something like NextCloud [1] (self hosted platform) as it will encrypt each file at rest and you can decide who has access to what files. As it is just for your family members, the AGPL license is probably mostly safe. Certainly read up on that first. :) [1] - https://nextcloud.com/ https://nextcloud.com/
- dhruvkar 8y agoAwesome, that's pretty close to what I was looking for. It would be nice to have some control over the front-end though. e.g. Enter in receipts, update car registrations and health insurances, etc. comfortable enough for a non-techie.
- LinuxBender 8y agoI have never interacted with their team, but I am certain you could submit diffs and ask them to consider merging.