That all sounds great but what we desperately need is instructions on how to do things like this for the less technical, and easy maintenance… I think those are the limiting factors for wide spread adoption
I agree. We need more and better instructions and easier-to-setup tools - all of this got a big boost with docker (compose). On the other hand, we need to pair the less-technical with the power-users and help each other. I am responsible for about 8-10 people. This frees them from cloud providers and helps me to built better and more robust solutions.
I run a synology nas with docker compose for some services and it works well. With a young family though when something does go wrong it can throw out a few days of my (very little) spare time.
Yeah, I have a family myself. This only worked for me because I have the habit to go to bed early (like 8PM) and stand up at 4-5 AM in the morning. This gives (or: gave) me about 1-2 hours before breakfast to learn Linux and DevOps.
I had a plan once for a website where we’d all post our self hosting architectures as kind of blueprints of known good configurations plus some instructions to build them… another project dropped due to spare time
Having used FreeNAS and TrueNAS Core and TrueNAS Scale, honestly it's not that complex and doesn't require any technical knowledge to get a basic system set up with backups to a cloud location of choice. The docs are very straightforward apart from a few specific terms you might need to Google but help tooltips generally do the trick, and everything that regular users might need is accessible through a trivial web UI.
