Comment on Starting from zero
pete@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Myrecommendations is probably to host a next cloud instance. Does all the standard ‘cloud stuff’. File, contact, calendar sync, plus a bunch if other stuff if you want to add it via plugins. If you’re patient, and a single use you can host it on basically anything. If you decide you want to add users or have a faster site, you can go down the route of sorting out faster hardware or better specs and suck.
My first step was Nextcloud as a snap on a Xubuntu desktop. Very old hardware but a big hard drive.
That was eight years ago. I’ll let you know if it fails anytime soon.
I have a bunch of other stuff now, but that was the start, and I still use it all the time!
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a recommendation that I’ve seen a couple of times, and it looks promising. However I haven’t found any guide that really explains how to do it step by step, or what factors I should consider, or even really what I need to be able to do it. Do you know if there is such a guide for someone who really isn’t a “computer guy?”
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honestly, if you want small and cheap get a raspberry pi to play around or rent a VM.
If you care about storage too you can get a Synology NAS which is pretty newbie proof and comes out of the box with different and photo sync along with support for VMs or docker.