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There’s more than a decade worth of banking, spending, and investment information in there.

That’s the real reason I would self host something like a budget app. I don’t want a company like Mint to have (and sell) my purchasing and financial history.

“self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I don’t want some third party having access to all of my transaction history and knowing what I spend and where.

I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.

Your question isn’t stupid. There is an important decision you need to make on “is the juice worth the squeeze.” While you can selfhost a lot of stuff sometimes there’s better reasons not to. Email is primary example that gets brought up a lot. Sure you CAN self host it, but for a lot of people on this sub it’s not worth the effort required to do so.

Each person has to make that decision for each of the things they choose to self host. Budget apps are no different.

Same. I ran OwnCloud and Nextcloud in parallel for a while until a Nextcloud update nuked it and my wife lost some of her college work.

After that I’ve appreciated the slower more deliberate pace of OwnCloud

Would that be better than just mounting the NFS on the host and assigning that directory as the Immich upload directory?

So your vote is an external library

just get a cheap nas eg from synology

Cheap and Synology are mutually exclusive. But I agree with the rest of what you said.

It’s not a good idea due to the load on the router and a proper NAS would be better

Because SDN setups are significantly better than Mesh

It’s basically the same as any other time people expose something to the internet.

Most don’t know what they’re doing or how to do it safely so they put a vulnerable device out in a vulnerable state.

The only reason a NAS is worse is because it’s more common for a home user to have a NAS then it is to do something like host a WordPress, and a NAS has more personal stuff than a WordPress does (usually)

I do. I monitor it in a lot of ways.

1. IDS at the router
2. Anomoli Detection at the router
3. Host based agents on everything I can
4. L7 Firewalls on everything I can
5. DNS based monitoring for everything

Wireguard and Cloudflare Tunnels make network traffic monitoring difficult because it’s all encrypted traffic.

MSDN used to be free so this was a common approach, but they re-org’ed all their programs so I think those keys are now hiding under the paid MSDN program…

You can still get Windows 11 Dev VMs for free;

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

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And you can get Evaluation keys for 11 Enterprise, Server 2022, SQL Server 2022, and System Center 2022.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter