but is well worth the effort in the end.
That’s easily said when you don’t have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill.
takes enormous amounts of data and is hard
Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that’s often overlooked).
I’m currently sitting on 4TB of data (that’s largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud.
My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that’s less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old “server” idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar.
I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I’m working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient.
Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10
