Oddbean new post about login | logout My business currently uses Google Drive as a cloud service, and we are 800GB away from reaching our 5TB data limit. I'm looking to transition to a self-hosted cloud solution that would allow my staff to upload videos and write-ups, and give clients access to their data. The option to easily expand storage capacity as needed would be a major plus. Does anyone on #Nostr have recommendations for this? #askNostr
@utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 @𝓢𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓹𝔂 I feel like you guys may have some insights?
Self hosted cloud solution ? @dimi 👀
"give clients access to their data" is going to be the kicker. What kind of access, how collaborative, what level of permissions and granularity do you require, etc. A big chunk of remote storage is one thing. But friendly UX for team and client access is another...
Nothing too fancy, I don't think. Every session we do with the goalies that we work with are recorded. We upload the videos to Drive, in a folder dedicated to the individual athlete. We share the individual file with the goalies, so they can have access to their videos whenever they want.
Nextcloud might be good enough! https://nextcloud.com/
TrueNAS for a free solution. It will let you scale up as your needs grow. I like Nextcloud as a replacement for cloud services, but I am sure there are others too.
Buy a Qnap NAS, go for rack versions with 4-5 disks to be able to use RAID5. You could do whatever you like with that, including your own video streaming server, file sharing with rights, web server, email server etc Or... you can setup a freeNAS on whatever PC/server you like. Keep your data with yourself, in your control.
Synology also seems to be popular. Any specific reason for going with a Qnap NAS instead?
How all-in-one are you looking to get? And how much IT knowledge/staff do you have? Also what is the budget?
Budget-wise, upgrading from 5tb to 10tb with Google would cost us $840/year. So anything that would give us a 2-3 year return on investment would be within budget. Meaning, up to $2,500. As long as uploading files to the cloud isn't too complicated, my staff could manage. There are 5 of us full-time and 8 part-timers. Approximately up to 15 people would need to be able to upload files to the storage. As for our clients, we would need approximately 100 people having the ability to access their individual folders, containing videos and written reports.
That is very doable. Good budget. You’ll be fine to selfhost. Proxmox on a desktop you build is the best all around solution imo. Here’s roughly mine, I think the ram I selected is different: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8gDH9c
Oh and this is the case it’s in: https://www.amazon.com/AUDHEID-Enclosures-Compatible-Micro-ATX-Motherboard/dp/B09QKMQ1B1
https://nextcloud.com/
Nextcloud is slow buggy trash At least look into the new Go-lang version of OwnCloud https://owncloud.com/infinite-scale/
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