I only backup specific folders in my NAS and some of my service DBs. I have test restored some files from Backblaze without issue. With Backblaze you pay for pulls, so I only chose to restore some small files to test restoral. TrueNAS encrypts the data before it goes to Backblaze and then Backblaze also encrypts the data in the buckets on their end, so double encrypted. I don’t have another on site copy so not really following the 3,2,1 rule. I figure RAID and an off-site backup is enough for me.

Unfortunately Homepage only works with ical, for those of us using a caldav server. 😭

Honestly I would love to, but getting my family off of all of the other corpo cloud stuff is still a work in progress. Also, I only have VPN access configured currently so when they need to access self hosted stuff remotely they have to remember to turn on the VPN and that seems to be hard for them to remember. I have Tasker configured on my phone so it just auto VPNs when I leave my house. I would set that up for them, but they complain whenever I try to help.

I have a Prusa Core One+ that I just got and built recently, don’t have anything for it on the homepage. Then the Octoprint is on a Pi 3B plugged into my Prusa MK3S+. I’ve been trying to sell the MK3S+ because I don’t have room for them both, but not getting any takers.

I’ve been managing infrastructure for over 3 decades and I don’t have this.

I’m guessing that a good chunk of that usage is coming from the TrueNAS VM.

Look up some youtube videos on self hosting. For Immich I just mostly followed their guide on their site. Really depends on what you want to do and how you want to do it.

Look into docker containers in general. If I was going to start from scratch in your position this is what I’d do:

Install a Linux distribution on the computer you plan to use for self hosting. I found Debian with the KDE plasma desktop environment to be pretty familiar coming from Windows. You could technically do most of this on Windows but imo self hosting is pretty much the only thing that a casual user would find better supported through Linux than Windows. The tools are made for people who want to do things themselves and those kinds of people tend to use Linux.

Once you have a Linux distribution installed, get docker set up. Once docker is set up, install portainer as your first docker container. The steps above require some command line work, which may or may not be intimidating for you, but once you have portainer functional you will have a GUI for docker that is easier to use than CLI for most people.

From this point you can find the docker installation instructions for any service you want to run. Docker containers have all the required dependencies of a given service packaged together nicely so deploying new services is super easy once you get the hang of it. You basically just have to define where the container should store it’s data and what web port you want to access the service on. The rest is preconfigured for you by the people who created the container.

There’s certainly more to be said on this topic, some of which you would likely want to look into before you deploy something your whole family will be using (storage setup and backup capability, virtual machines to segregate services, remote accessibility, security, etc). However, the above is really all you need to get to the point where you can deploy pretty much anything you’d like on your local network. The rest is more about best practices and saving yourself headaches when something breaks than it is about functionality.

Could you point to how you get something like this started?

The Homepage wiki is pretty detailed.

Yeah, Homepage is great.

You basically get all of the things an adobe subscription would get you for free? Also, I’m on Linux so no Adobe anyway. It all runs in the browser so no need to install software.

I only recently started using it, honestly couldn’t say. I’ve never used portainer. I just started using dockge because that’s what the guide I was following for the arr stack was using. Still haven’t finished the arr stack setup yet. I did stand up changedetection with dockge though because trying to set it up in TrueNAS was a pain in the ass when trying to get it to play with playwright correctly.

How do you find dockge over portainer?

I’ve used it briefly, and then went back to Portainer. I had no real complaints about dockge, other than I could drive the Portainer bus more efficiently and it just seemed to fit my flow. There are quite a few here that use dockge tho, so it must be a capable app.