I tried to compare some backup solutions a while back: https://hedgedoc.ptman.name/kket4uo9RLiJRnOhkCzvWw#
Forget about docker. Run caddy or some similar webserver that is a single file next to the assets to serve.
How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn’t handle disk filling and fragmentation well.
Element is running out of money. I think they would keep the old license if other commercial matrix-based projects would contribute developers or money.
Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn’t run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn’t running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.
Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.
https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.
zram or a cloud instance with more ram https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Got bought
cryptpad si quite good
Gandi is no longer a good choice
I see. I’m an old fart and couldn’t care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.
what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?
HP Microserver + openmediavault or similar.
Extensible events and RBAC sound interesting, but they’re 1.9
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-factor_authentication :