Sensitive files have always been accessible only on my LAN, or through VPN, and I’d have to find a solution for this problem as well when no longer self hosting.Ī lot has happened to cloud storage since I last used it some 8 years ago. I still want “on the move” access to files though. I’ve been using Nextcloud in combination with Resilio Sync for “cloud storage” for the past 5-6 years, and it has served me really well, but requires me to host “something”. I started having more spare time, and it was time to tinker again. This “scratched my itch” for a month or so. Don’t expose them to the internet though! I still had my NAS running, but it was only accessible from my LAN, and Synology boxes are more or less appliances you plug in and leave running. And not VPS hosting, as that’s essentially just self hosting on somebody else’s hardware.Īfter shutting down my self hosted services I turned off my PowerEdge, deleted a handful of firewall rules, and i could relax a little. Shortly after New Years, I handed in my 2 weeks notice as a home system administrator, and migrated every public available self hosted service to cloud hosting. I didn’t want to worry about multiple backups, local and remote, and worry every time thunder would roll if it would fry the UPS.
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#Jottacloud speed software#
I already maintain a small fleet (<100) of servers at work on top of my responsibilities as software architect and lead / senior developer. When 2021 rolled around the corner I decided I didn’t want to spend my spare time being a system administrator. I also spent quite a few hours worrying when a drive would fail, and looking for deals on replacement drives.
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Checking logs for hardware errors, intruders, failed backups, software updates. I spent at least an hour every day making sure everything ran as a well oiled machine. From a custom built FreeBSD server running ZFS RAIDZ1, to Synology, to multiple Raspberry Pi’s (this blog started out on a raspberry pi B), a few years on The perfect media server, and up to my latest iteration of a Synology DS918+ for storage and a Dell PowerEdge T30 for hosting services (accessing storage over NFSv4 with Kerberos). I’ve been across multiple iterations of hardware. I’ve been self hosting for decades ever since my first 2/0.5 mbit ADSL connection, but after the Snowden revelations I doubled down on bringing everything back home. Part of what has been keeping me busy is because i self host everything except mail. I have about 20 “draft” posts waiting for the finishing touches, but I just never found the time to do it.
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To the point where I’ve had little time for personal projects, and when I finally made something, it either turned out to be a bad idea, or not in a state I wanted to show. Not because I meant to, but as they say “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans“, and life has been happening a lot to me these past few years. This blog has been in a state of neglect for a long time.