I'd like to get to a docker swarm sort of situation where I have 3 identical docker VMs, running 3 identical Caddy configurations, with 3 identical Apache VMs, and requests load balanced across them. And then I want a shared filesystem so the users can upload the files for their web sites to one location, and it's made available to all the web front ends.

I'm currently in a mixed environment:

• #xcpng on bare metal
  

• FreeBSD VMs running important services (bastions, email, DNS)
  

• #AlpineLinux VMs running docker for all my container-based stuff
  

So I'm trying to do the shared, highly available FS part of this design and I'd stay with FreeBSD if I could. #selfhosted

I use nextcloud for a lot of my home data serving. It lets me have the full iCloud/Google docs experience, but with all the data on my own systems/disks. One service that is a little less known, I think, is ONLYOFFICE. It's a thick-client Word, Powerpoint, Excel, PDF-Form-making office suite. I get a ton of mileage out of it. It's honestly a bit rough around the edges and not as full-featured yet. But their mobile app works, their desktop app works, and I guess it's good enough for me. It costs like $120 once-in-a-while. That is, they do big version upgrades and expect you to pay if you want the new version. But then they do a lot of features and updates on a major version. It works out to about $120 every couple of years or so.