The hardware running Proxmox around my homelab is a little slow or a little outdated. I have an Intel N100 mini PC and a Ryzen 3550H mini PC here at home, and I have another Intel N100 mini PC off-site...
Read the post →I am not sure how to write this blog post without implicating myself in any shady, nefarious, or illegal activities. I will do my best.
Read the post →Back in February, I decided it was time to go back to hosting my own cloud storage again. I originally started hosting my own Seafile server back in 2013. I stopped colocating that server hardware in 2018, shut down my...
Read the post →I’ve been using Seafile for my cloud storage and sync needs for more than eight years. I spent quite a few of those years hosting Seafile on my own colocated server, then I outsourced the hosting to a third party,...
Read the post →I am a fan of Dropbox-style file sync services. I’m not a fan of letting someone else have the keys to access my encrypted data. Back in 2013, I tested every open-source self-hosted cloud-storage solution I could get my hands...
Read the post →I’ve been using Bitwarden for a little over a month so far. I’m enjoying the experience, and I haven’t had any problems, so I expect that I will continue to use Bitwarden as my password manager for the foreseeable future....
Read the post →It almost feels too soon to be handing in a report on how well Bitwarden is working out after only a month of use. I’ve learned something important since migrating from Keepass. Something that I managed to completely gloss over...
Read the post →Passwords are hard work. We can’t use simple passwords, because they’ll be easy to guess or brute force. We can’t reuse passwords, because when a random Internet forum’s database is compromised, we don’t want anyone to use that data to...
Read the post →Five years ago, I was on the hunt for a Dropbox replacement. I wanted something that was open source, and something that I could host myself. The solution needed to be scalable There are a lot of options with varying...
Read the post →Early last year, I decided that I should replace Dropbox with a cloud-storage solution that I could host on my own servers. I was hoping to find something scalable enough to store ALL the files in my home directory, and...
Read the post →I have been using Seafile for my synchronization, backup, and storage needs for more than a year. The near real-time backups of my data that Seafile provides me with have saved me a lot of time on several occasions, and...
Read the post →I just got back from a long trip back home to visit and help out my parents. Having oodles of cloud storage sure made the trip easier.
Read the post →Quite a bit has happened since I reported in September. Seafile 2.0 was released, and that release just happened to coincide with a hardware failure. That was actually pretty convenient for me, since I wanted to rebuild my libraries with...
Read the post →We had some server hardware problems here at patshead.com last week. At first it looked like one of the hard drives in the RAID 10 failed. It dropped out of the array, and when I added it back into the...
Read the post →I started using Seafile over two months ago for all of my self-hosted cloud storage needs. I think enough time has passed, and I figured I should report back on how things have been going so far. Seafile has actually...
Read the post →A few weeks ago I decided on precisely how I was going to implement my own self-hosted cloud storage, and I even wrote up a blog entry describing what I was planning to do. I discovered Seafile the very next...
Read the post →Update: Shortly after writing this entry, [I discovered Seafile][12]. I had to scale my plans back. Most of [the software I looked at][1] did not scale well to the hundreds of thousands of files in my home directory, especially when...
Read the post →Update: This post has gotten pretty obsolete. I’ve written a newer, more thorough cloud-storage comparison post. There may still be some useful information in the post you are currently looking at, but my advice is to skip ahead to the...
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