My parents have a NAS! Maybe I set up Tailscale and send it over there…

Although they live 3 streets away from me so I worry it’s not remote enough in case of flood etc

Honestly, I just run it from the CLI myself.

I’ve wasted too much time fighting with CI and automation that when I migrated to forjego I didn’t bother to put it in again.

You pretty much got it. I need a quick way to restore the repo and ideally have git do a self backup. Seems like a cheap VPS may be the way to go

You could try something S3 based, and do backups by date?

For example, export a subset of the DB and name it accordingly (ie. 2025-04-to-2025-01.tar).

If you do that there are a lot of pretty cheap S3 providers (like Wasabi).

S3 interfaces nicely with RCLONE so you can move providers etc and pull it really quickly.

As an aside, when I looked into something like this the thing that made me hesitate was the time and cost for retrieval from cold storage (like amazon glacier) outweighed the savings.

Synology seems to be the go to brand for most folks. They have a solid OS and take their security pretty seriously.

If you want to have more fun you could grab a small x86 NAS (ugreen/terramaster) and flash it with truenas.

What’s your goal? Is it safe to match is a very open ended question.

Take RHEL, it’s meant to be a paid distro for enterprise, something Debian isn’t. But you could draw similarities too.

What’s are you trying to learn?

There are tools like rss bridge that can be a big help: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

YouTube wise I use invidious rewrite rules

I’m kind of addicted to miniflux.

I use it to aggregate my RSS l, GitHub release notes, & YouTube feeds so I can stay up to date

From what I understand nexcloud isn’t a mail server, only a client. I’d need something that can act as an SMTP bridge to actually send emails.