I moved from SquareSpace to self-hosted Ghost a few years ago. Maybe Ghost or Jekyll? Good luck.

I supported Bitwarden for at least 5 years, and like you… walked over the $10/year bridge. I setup my own Vaultwarden about 2 weeks ago with off-site backups… I’m fine with this responsibility, but I waved goodbye to them.

I continue to support Proton (now Business) for custom domain e-mail & VPN. They don’t offer port forwarding, so I still support AirVPN for personal reasons. I tried out WireShark & was not impressed with latency/packet loss monitoring at their nearby endpoints.

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I support BackBlaze B2 for all off-site backups – excellent low-cost provider for my “Cloud” backups.

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I run Home Assistant locally, but I’d definitely support their Cloud project if I needed a greater home acceptance factor… very similar to supporting Proton & Bitwarden in their beginnings. I appreciate them not paywalling features.

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I ran away from Blue Iris Surveillance & adopted Frigate about 6 months ago – best decision I ever made. I love running Frigate with a GPU for AI.

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If you waved a magic wand around 8-10 years ago & told everyone they’d be drowning in smartphone photos & privacy issues with Google, 9/10 would not have believed you. That’s about when I left Google Drive permanently back then & have been running Nextcloud since. I am glad to see masses of people finally leaving Google Photos. I also run PhotoPrism as my long-term photo manager to visualize “life” for our family. Absolutely zero money flowing into the hands of Google now. They tossed their Google Domains Beta idea into the trash can of another entity I accidentally supported earlier in life – SquareSpace. When Google announced the sale of Google Domains to SquareSpace, I moved all domains to CloudFlare within a week. Thanks SquareSpace, but I can run my own Ghost & Jekyll blogs for free now thanks to this great OSS community.

I laughed at this. Tell people at parties you run Arch. I need new friends. Thank you for this.

It’s been suggested before, but I’ll echo it. We need a Portainer competitor with different goals. Fork Portainer & sail the seas. I think you’ll find a lot of hidden support here from other developers. Portainer not acknowledging backup/recovery is a major gap IMO. Proxmox has Proxmox Backup Server, where is my Portainer Backup Server? Good luck!

I bought into Fastmail about 10 years ago (for 7 years) & recently moved to Proton about 5 years ago. Both are excellent privacy-first providers. Gmail is my junk e-mail at this point. Good recommendation. Australia-based business. Fastmail & Proton are my votes. I tried self-hosting for a few years & would agree with below – too many issues with blacklists. This is one you should consider paying for.