Hey folks, over the past years I changed all my stuff step by step from big tech to open source and europe alternatives. I came from Google Workspace to iCloud with advanced protection to Proton to kSuite. (I left Proton cause of the lack of webdav, caldav, carddav)
I did this with all my stuff. From Instagram, X, Facebook, to Fediverse. And I like it.
Now I heard that Swiss is planning to add laws which are able to identify me, even as a German, and have all the rights to read my drive stuff if they want to. It’s not possible for me to trust them anymore.
So they choice is really thin out there. I could host my own NextCloud instance, and I did A LOT of times on my webspace and every time an updates comes, it brakes and I loose all my stuff. I don't want this and I don't want the overhead to fix this stuff or make sure, I can go back. 99% of all updates didn't even let me login anymore. No login at all. Whatever ... I thought about a NAS. Before the NAS, there is an OpenWRT router with AdGuard Home and Wireguard VPN.
So. Is this the end for my chase of a trustworthy Contact, Calender, Drive? If I buy this, I am on the most independent stuff possible? (I don't want a big server or something like this - I just want to settle down and don't switch companies because their country decided to get the next NSA).
And if so: Which one is good in terms of privacy? Synology? QNAP? I would buy a 2 bay NAS where one drive is the clone of the other, so I can change drives, if one is dead, without worrying at all.
Thanks for reading, excuse me for my bad english, and thanks for your ideas in advance.
Buying a nas is easy. Most of them support backups. The good ones support containers which takes some of the pain out of what you're working with.
But the nas are fairly expensive, They don't have as long of a lifespan as you would expect. And then you're also beholden to the company for updates, and policy changes. (Synology is currently on their way to requiring you to use their own branded drives, you didn't used to have to do that but they're slowly taking away features)
Only you can decide what makes sense to you. Hey Naz is an easy, slick solution where you're putting the care and ability for long-term access in someone else's hands. Building your own system even with something like unrade is still a hell of a lot of work. But then you get to decide how everything works.
Do what feels right for you.