My friend is a camera operator and is looking to take two SSDs together for a portable raid. AFAIK modern raid like that is an old school approach. I recommended he set up a little server or the easy way out and just look for a JBOD enclosure. Am I wrong? Are there trustworthy enclosures that handle the raid without much set-up today?
It seems there is a big bet on the value of “human to human” interactions on Reddit. Certainly that makes federated communities easy treasure to pirate? Does anything stop bots from web scraping/data-mining everything we say? I often think about contributing to PeerTube instead of Google YouTube but I feel like my content would be scraped by even more nefarious services quite quickly. Edit: Thanks for the feedback. Makes sense. Double edged sword of the internet. Still makes me hesitate to contribute.
With the recent news, VPN bans being tested in western countries and even states like Michigan toying with new internet censorship; it’s had me thinking that I need to up my self hosting game. I currently use Truenas scale electric eel and I really am a novice with no formal education. I have a myriad of apps running, learned through YouTube tutorials, documentation, and AI. I tunnel out some of these services via cloudflare zero trust to a domain. I’ve got pi-hole running on the network and a VPN on my windows machine but that’s about it. It’s great! It works! It’s fun to tinker with and has allowed my family to ditch a lot of subscriptions. Browsing around, though, I see a lot of comments about different ways to secure servers. Everytime I try to learn about something such as VPS, reverse proxies it feels like an inundation of too much information and differing opinions. It seems like there are so many ways to do it that I really have no clue where to begin. I also don’t want to break what is currently working for me.
Anyone have a good idea on good sources to educate myself? Is it vital I learn how to run some sort of local service? How would hard government crackdown shutdown VPNs and what could a self-hoster do to avoid that? Be gentle. Thanks.
