Home Server

I’ve had a little Synology NAS running all our media, but we’ve slowly outgrown it—so I built a custom one. This is that story. I’m firmly in the self-hosting camp, but like much of the world I once got swept up in the shiny convenience of cloud providers and services—Google Photos, Netflix, Kindle, and the like. That shine has started to wear off, and I’m now about 80% free of these services.…