> What should the rest of the world do? Educate and help those who do not know? I helped setup my cousin’s NAS and gave it a subdomain. What i meant by no sur

> What should the rest of the world do? Educate and help those who do not know? I helped setup my cousin’s NAS and gave it a subdomain. What i meant by no surprises is: the backend and front end stays the same forever, short of me manually updating it. My server and their apps, will not suddenly lose functionality or have cruft added because someone in Mountain View deems so. Key to making this work is keeping things simple. Meaning no container or any burying of my data under any layer of abstraction. My files are laid bare on the platter, making it very portable because any application that does file system operation can immediately operate on my files. Unlike the clusterfuck that is owncloud. Every quarter I do an incremental offline backup of all the drives in the NAS, to address all the issues you mentioned.