How “safe” is ZimaHost, given that it’s developed by a Chinese company? No offense to them, but the Chinese government does like to have absolute control over everything.

How reliable has YunoHost been for you, for example when updating it or the apps you’ve installed?

Who are “they”?

We use MariaDB at work but I don’t know why it was originally chosen over PostgreSQL, as that was before my time.

That’s pretty good!

How much storage is it using?

The iOS app on my phone doesn’t have that option.

Hopefully they improved face tagging. I can’t work out how to add a new person’s name.

Awesome! But damn, I just installed v1.144.1 last night to play around with it. 😁

Exactly!

“We hate the fediverse! Join us on our Lemmy server in the fediverse!”

I’m also using SFTPGo at home and it works well.

I used a NetCup VPS for a while but it would repeatedly have terrible performance, presumably because whoever I was sharing the server with was hammering the machine.

I use https://sftpgo.com/ at home for backing up and accessing files. It’s a private unshared network and it works well.

Because Google don’t want you to export your photos. They want you to depend on them 100%.

Spot on. You can’t self host without reading app and system logs.

I’m using https://sftpgo.com/, which uses WebDAV. It’s as basic as can be but I like it because it’s so basic. I can mount drives in windows and Linux and it has a basic webui for file management. The only problem for me is mobile apps. I’m trying out OwlFiles on Android and iOS; the free version includes WebDAV support, which works well.

Don’t make anything accessible via the internet if you’re new and starting out. The last thing you want is to accidentally leave a port open, leave an admin page with a default guessable password, or a piece of vulnerable software running and have someone gain access to your local network.

Start locally and learn the basics following the excellent advice of others here, and slowly build your knowledge until you understand the various moving and connecting pieces.

Haha it’s easy to overthink things sometimes. I’m guilty of that. I’m using SFTPGo at home to serve files from a small server.

Would this work? https://rclone.org/

Yeah, you’re right. I completely forgot about the conspiracy theorists etc.

Interesting tech, shame about the content.

They are, it’s full of crypto folk and not much else.