[twintwinetwolf]

Because what you described is an unbearably complex, and highly unreliable solution. There is no way your home storage is more reliable than a geography-duplicated cloud center with 6 nines (or more) of data reliability.

If you love spending hours a day twiddling with linux configs, knock yourself out, but my time is worth more and the every arrow of opportunity cost points toward an integrated cloud ecosystem.

I prefer to save data in the cloud, and not "on the computer... in my house..." as the hank hill meme goes, because that hardware is painfully fragile.

[Cyan488]

In my experience, all it took was buying a consumer Syno NAS, turning on the VPN server and connecting a DDNS service.

Setting up a second off-site NAS and connecting it to the primary one over VPN was also easy.

I haven't twiddled with Linux configs since I set up the system in 2018.

[izacus]

Did you actually measure that? Because I did and self hosted NAS easily reaches realibility of any cloud in place without common power outages.

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but this myth about cloud reliability is a myth lately - all the corps have started squeezing for profit at the cost of reliability and availability.

[aborsy]

No Linux configs, off the shelf NAS boxes come with their own operating systems. You learn a few concepts in initial days. The control plan is simpler than in a windows computer or phone.

You configure an offsite backup in the NAS.

Obviously you don’t have eleven 9 availability. But good enough for home use.

[Saris]

So far with the Cloudflare and AWS outages this year my home storage is far more reliable hah