Homelab

For a while now I’ve wanted to offer file storage to family and friends on my homelab, but I kept putting it off. It wasn’t about disk space or setup, it was trust. I didn’t want to be in a position where I could look at their files, even if I never would. And they’d know that too, which makes people hesitant to actually use it. So I looked around at what’s out there. Nextcloud has end-to-end encryption, but with some known gaps. Most other self-hosted options just rely on disk encryption, which protects you if someone steals the physical drive, but does nothing against a compromised server or an admin poking around. ...

Hello there, here I am in the New year (I can still say that right?) with a new addiction, Self Hosting. I have been following the self-hosted community in Reddit for a while now, and I always wanted to have my own server to play around with, run some programs, break some stuff and perhaps some automation to make life a little better. At the start of this year, out of nowhere, I got a spark to try it out, after all, I am a developer and interested in these kinds of stuff.