Yeah, the bus factor is an issue to take into account also. I'll need to find someone else to be able to solve those issues.

Well said, and the 'oops shit's dead' is also in the making. We have the chance to be close to a school so electricity + internet is never down. The time to move to a VPS/other location is minimal, with encrypted backup on multiple locations. Open to suggestions to improve the setup.

+1 for using Tailscale funnel Don't use a lot of resources and easy to setup

• With Nextcloud you have the option to encrypt the data at rest Nextcloud - Encryption.
• it's the same as hosting your Google Drive, you juste have to create different user and it won't be shared between user, except if you share them...
• for backups, I would suggest you look at eather Plugins or do your own rsync. If you go serious about this, donc forget the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy
• To have access as network drive, theirs always the possibility to install it as a Desktop app. Or you could mount a network drive with Nextcloud and use it as an 'interface' to see the drive.

As for a guide... Google, YouTube is your friend... Theirs those if you want to start

• Nextcloud with S3 Object Storage | How To Set Up on Linode
• Nextcloud: Complete Setup Guide

My personal advice, if you setup as a docker, use an external database and not the one provided within the docker, it might break when you'll update Nextcloud.

I have a Nextcloud instand. I find that bookmark work great.

Plus it sync the books marks of my browser!

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks

Or, if you don't pay for the product, you are the product.

I did the same, but I started from my list of run scripts... I used ChatGPT to create them, took 2 minutes...

use chatgpt for that... It can also create your ansible task...

What would be the name it should use instead?