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You could checkout https://mailbox.org/ https://mailbox.org/. It's a pretty cool service for most stuff you mentioned and it values privacy. - cloud storage

You could checkout https://mailbox.org/ https://mailbox.org/. It's a pretty cool service for most stuff you mentioned and it values privacy. - cloud storage - online office (calendar, documents, etc.) - mail - video conferencing For more specific stuff (Smart home) you could go for Proxmox combined with zfs-auto-snapshot and some docker LXC and shared directories. Pretty easy to setup (once you are familiar) and rock solid (at least for my self-hosting use case) - even a good level of ransomware protection, if configured correctly. Here is a sample project using proxmox with some self-hosted services (not a recommendation, just an example): https://github.com/bashclub/zamba-lxc-toolbox https://github.com/bashclub/zamba-lxc-toolbox

levinb 3y ago
I am actually starting to think about using European services (Hetzner?) for some things just to have some sort of legal framework that offers plausible control of my data. I already use paid email. I mostly trust that something running in a VM is not accessible or abused when I sign a contract - I just don't want to use 30 SaaS services that require me to allow data consumption from me and my customers. Can you compare Proxmoc to just running small VMs or a container on a bare-metal hosting provider?
- sandreas 3y ago
  I tried a lot of self-hosted solutions for my homelab. Pretty much all of them were very time consuming and had minor restrictions I did not want to have. However, Proxmox provided a 'framework' that seemed superior: - Having ZFS as a filesystem to easily revert to a previous state [1] [2] - Makes possible using docker within an additional 'security layer' (LXC) - Having easy integrated backup and restore - Being scalable, if I had to - Not focussing 'fancy new technologies' (k8s, etc.), but established ones (qemu, LXC) [1]: https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-via-zfs-snapshot/ https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-v... [2]: https://xai.sh/2018/08/27/zfs-incremental-backups.html https://xai.sh/2018/08/27/zfs-incremental-backups.html

levinb 3y ago

I am actually starting to think about using European services (Hetzner?) for some things just to have some sort of legal framework that offers plausible control of my data. I already use paid email. I mostly trust that something running in a VM is not accessible or abused when I sign a contract - I just don't want to use 30 SaaS services that require me to allow data consumption from me and my customers. Can you compare Proxmoc to just running small VMs or a container on a bare-metal hosting provider?

sandreas 3y ago
I tried a lot of self-hosted solutions for my homelab. Pretty much all of them were very time consuming and had minor restrictions I did not want to have. However, Proxmox provided a 'framework' that seemed superior: - Having ZFS as a filesystem to easily revert to a previous state [1] [2] - Makes possible using docker within an additional 'security layer' (LXC) - Having easy integrated backup and restore - Being scalable, if I had to - Not focussing 'fancy new technologies' (k8s, etc.), but established ones (qemu, LXC) [1]: https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-via-zfs-snapshot/ https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-v... [2]: https://xai.sh/2018/08/27/zfs-incremental-backups.html https://xai.sh/2018/08/27/zfs-incremental-backups.html