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[Answered] Any open source host solution for private users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Situation: we live in europe, there's PRISM and Privacy Shield and all that, to which selfhosting is the solution. Now, my sister, mostly on Apple, got concerned with all the hacks and privacy violations over the years. She's a tech noob, so i can't really recommend her prism-break.org

There's a bunch of hosted solutions geared towards small to medium business, like Univention Corporate Server, NethServer, etc.

Are there similiar bundles for private use, basically Apple cloud alternative? With services like cloud storage, cloud office, media share, maybe chat, videocall?

Or should i let her wait until i got my box up, VPN her over? I'm only semi-professional tho.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

This is my most heartfelt advice: do not do hosting for family members. You will get no end of trouble.

Find her a commercial service she can trust. Or throw up your hands and go “big tech, what can you do”. But do not, under any circumstance, run her IT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I don't know. I run a Nextcloud instance for myself and I let my gf tag along. Why do you think people shouldn't help their families out?

[–] refalo 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this sums it up nicely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The comment you replied to is a direct reply to the comment you linked - I don't think it was intentional, but if it was, then I'd like to say it's not a very helpful reply as OP already read it.

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