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So I've been wondering that almost every household now has some amount of digital data that needs to be taken care of. Some having more data than others.
Considering the current situation of self hosting and NAS products, what do you think needs to change to make an average consumer even consider self hosting or a NAS product?
austin-cheney
mikewarot
Then you need to make the actual service dead simple to use from anywhere. Punching through NAT and firewalls are the main issues there.
smalltorch
Onion services. Just make it normal. Some may say that's overkill. It's really not today.
It happens to be the best way to self-host with privacy by default.
I don't buy that they are too slow. Its not. It's perfectly adequate.
1. The price of hardware has to return to normal. Otherwise it might take 2 years to see a savings compared to just paying streaming subscriptions.
2. Private access from anywhere. This requires something like a vpn tunnel to a globally available address that otherwise drops all network traffic. There are private commercial solutions for this like TailScale. Otherwise you would need IPv6 access to a WireGuard virtual network interface, which is way more challenging to get correct than it sounds.
3. Finally the easy part is the software. I wrote my own solution for this but there other great options like Open Media Vault.