@_elena hi Elena!

[petaqui@masto.es]

@_elena hi Elena! I'm digging deeper into self hosting (I've been doing that for more than 15 years on simple sites, image hosting, and some tools at a web server), but, I'm thinking of using more complex apps. The point, on why I'm writing to you 😃 aren't you afraid of the security side? Thousands of sites are being hacked daily, aren't you afraid of having some data exposed? For example, NextCloud doesn't encrypt your data if you don't use the E2EE function (probably you won't as they don't either recommend that). Thanks!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@petaqui hi Alexandro! Great question! So I'm using NextCloud as a replacement for WeTransfer and Dropbox, mostly to share documents with collaborators. My main photo library stays on a hard drive that is backed up in 3 different locations... and for super sensitive data I use ProtonDrive.

Still, I like not having to depend on U.S. tech platforms for work stuff

[petaqui@masto.es]

@_elena thanks! I use @Internxt and Mega for my data, but, I was thinking about other apps, like Journiv (it looks dope!), or AdventureLog. Have you thought about those things? Have you read about security and privacy using #Yunohost and what's your idea? Thank you so much!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@petaqui I tried pretty much all the self-hosting for newbies solutions out there (except for Runtipi - haven't had time yet) and YunoHost really shines in terms of security, disabling root access during the installation and automatically installing Fail2Ban. I have nothing but amazing things to say about it.

Now for new things, I am pacing myself because I don't want too many things on a VPS... I need to simplify my digital life 😅 I have set up Matomo on a second VPS and I may try Monica