It's not a cheap hobby, but self hosting is fun. Learning more about Docker has made it a great way to learn self hosting. I guess Synology is like training wheels in the self hosting community, but when you only know Windows, it's a good introduction to Linux, servers, networking, RAID, and a ton of other topics.

The units aren't expensive when you compare it to the storage drives. I use a DS918+ which has 4 bays, and I have 14TB drives in each one. This is much more space than I need, but you always end up with more than you expect. I'd say each drive is probably $250 each right now.

No, it's older than that I think, but I'm not directly connected due to where my PC is in the house. This worked out perfectly for me, though. The firefox container jumped the speed from about 5mbps to 50mbps

As I mentioned, it is probably something that most of the people here would think of right away, but for those like me who don't have a wired connection to their router due to whatever reason, this can speed things up. This post was intended to help people like me looking for a faster way to degoogle.

Yeah I did 2GB files because I expected to download through the browser and didn't want anything to time out and fail in the middle. I never expected how slow it would be though. Moving to the docker container made things a lot faster. It went from 5mbps to 50mbps.

Thanks. I’m trying.

The third world government of Texas for one. Whether they target my kid or not, better safe than sorry.

Aside from what the other commenter said, this is something I’m looking for for my daughter and believe it or not she prefers an app.

Also, this is the self hosted community. People self host all kinds of stupid shit. Why are you here?