Why would I?

I use a mesh vpn to manage my servers otherwise, what’s the difference?

Hell I RDP to them all the time (or SSH) - if anything it’s providing another layer of encryption.

I’ve re-read the docs around VirtualBox bridging, and the only thing that I think could possibly cause this (though it shouldn’t since ping is a direct address to a specific IP/mac) is to enable Promiscuous mode (as cappucino mentioned).

This shouldn’t fix it in my opinion, but it may, since ICMP could be considered undirected traffic (I don’t, but I didn’t code VirtualBox).

I’ve sometimes found using trace instead of ping can sometimes work where pings would be blocked, plus trace shows exactly where it dies along the path.

Such a great point.

I’ve refused to use software that require things like Discord or Telegram for support.

Use a proper tool on your website.

1.2 TB is a shitload

That’s about 1/8 my current total storage - in today’s drive costs that’s about $40 for just primary storage, and then 2x - 3x that for backup storage.

Fine.

So don’t even bother locking your doors then?

You absolutists are part of the problem.

Right? Reading that was like watching an action movie!

Hahahahaha

I’ll be over here crying in the corner.

Next you’re gonna mention ICQ

Ventrillo.

Dammit, son, makin’ me feel old now

I don’t know, problems with nextcloud are a near-daily thing around here. Seems like it has some structural challenges.

There’s also risk.

Offloading this stuff to cloud means you trade $ for someone else taking the risks.

And of you’re a business, you (better) have cyber insurance, and those insurance vendors will ask tough questions that most self-hosters would be clueless to answer.

It can be done, but like anything else, there’s no free lunch.

And if you have a proper finance org, they’ll want to see how self-hosting makes financial sense.

It takes real expertise and diligence to run everything on-prem - most small businesses don’t have the luxury of that kind of diligence since the cost (staff engineering time) comes from one side of the budget, and cloud (vendor) costs reduce both your risk and come from the other side of the budget (which reduces tax liability).

I agree with everything except the offsite, offline, external drive.

In my experience, cold drives fail more often than live drives, and you get no warning when this happens.

Drives weren’t engineered to be offline but to be powered on continuously. Things like lubricants in the spindle, but especially the read heads pivot were designed around this. How anybody us have heard the click of death - that’s the read head having issues moving.

Plus external drives have heat dissipation problems. They’re good for short, intermittent reads, but when initially copying data to them they can get quite hot. I regularly recover and rebuild drives for family and friends and have registered these things at 120° F+, so I keep an old case fan on them during recovery.

My current backup approach uses Syncthing, but only to replicate all data to a single point, which is then backed up properly.

All mobile devices sync to home, that box is the authoritative data source for everything: mobile devices, user data, media files, etc.

It replicates to two other local data stores (this for quick recovery should a drive/device fail) and is backed up to a cloud service (should I have a catastrophic event).

Its not a perfect 3-2-1 setup, but addresses my risks well enough.

Someone down-voted but I agree, and this from actual experience doing stuff similar to OP.

Flexibility, compatibility, and power consumption are significant considerations for a self-hoster.

I’ve run ST with Pi, and while Pi is great, it’s non-standard so doesn’t have the benefit (yet) of ubiquity. While it’s low power consumption is fantastic, mini PC’s and even SFF (Small-Form-Factor) desktops are in the same range for similar costs (in the used market) while providing orders of magnitude more performance per watt and much more hardware compatibility.

A Pi 5 today is in the $120 range - for a device that on it’s own will idle at about 4 watts, with peak draw at 15w. This without any storage yet, and no case.

A mini PC will idle about the same - but can house a large, standard drive so be a much better package for OP’s intended use-case, and cost less on the used market.

I’d maybe add an online backup for the device you’ve chosen to be the authoritative data source to achieve close to a 3-2-1.

Edit: I LOVE the Pi, I just have a hard time rationalizing the cost for it and then a case, etc. I think it has a bright future for things like NAS, low-power (as in watts) devices that spend most of their time idle, etc.

Oh, yea, very low data rate.

Great example of a use-case.

So an internet with voluntary transit

Neat idea to use it for this

Fortunately its super easy to get into XMPP, especially with apps like Cheogram as they offer easy account creation.

Wow, Jellyfin on the Tizen store is huge.

I’ve been running it on my Samsung - getting it installed (“side loaded”, uggh, hate that term) isn’t for the faint-hearted. Hell, I had to document it with photos of the TV to ensure I could do it again.

Not that I like installing apps from Samsung’s app store, I really don’t want to use any of the smart features on the TV, it was just the easiest path forward at the moment.

Exactly, bandwidth doesn’t degrade over distance, so why would the uplibk bandwidth be the issue for Asia when its fine for Europe.

I use Syncthing and Resilio Sync for this stuff.

Both of them sync according to rules you define.

I sync my mobile devices to home this way, and access the folders on the server via SMB shares (which are unrelated to ST or Resilio).

No web interface required, as you just use whatever network sharing you want at home.

What “extra steps” are you running into with SyncThing? Its really flexible (especially Syncthing-Fork for Android). Maybe it or Resilio can be configured to do what you need.

For example, I use the Selective Sync feature in Resilio so that I can access any file at home whenever I want without using a VPN.

Second this.

And I’ll add DietPi is great, easy to run wherever you want. I run it in its own VM on my ESXi box.