I’m new/planning to get more into self hosting

I have a crappy NAS in the basement I archive to and copy my borg repos to.

Then I pay for a Dropbox style cloud service and I copy my borg archives there. It’s kind of janky but it’s cheap and works.

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

If you set up something like Garage with borg with a bunch of other people you could create a network where you essentially swap hard drive space to ensure you’re all backed up.

But I think Garage assumes very high trust with your fellow hosts, so this doesn’t scale beyond direct social connections.

The object storage (S3-compatible) platform MinIO created a bit of a stir this week with a PR that removes a ton of functionality from the interface of its community edition. When questioned, users were directed to the enterprise version of the platform. In unsurprising open-source fashion, a fork has already been created by the community while others have started migrating to existing alternatives like Garage.

How are people finding Garage? Does anyone have a good comparison vs seaweedFS?

I don’t hate AI, I hate how it was created, how it’s foisted on us, the promises it can do things it really can’t, and the corporate governance of it.

But I acknowledge these tools exist, and I do use them because they genuinely help and I can’t undo all the stuff I hate about them.

If I had millions of dollars to spend, sure I would try and improve things, but I don’t.