I'm going to be moving soon, and that means taking the homelab offline for some period of time. Here's part 1 of how I'm preparing for it, by shrinking my Nextcloud storage footprint.
In addition to the self-hosted services for media consumption, I also self-host some tools for publishing - Ghost, Photo-Stream, and serving some static content.
I've been using Nextcloud for quite some time, starting as a replacement for Google Photos, but it has some performance limitations.
It was well-past time for my partner's laptop to be upgraded, but when it started exhibiting signs of battery failure the timeline moved to immediate. We'd already decided to buy her a Framework laptop, as it's a well-priced, balanced-power, and most importantly, sustainable and repairable option.
All self-hosting environments have some level of not-hosted-here. Here's what I use in my environment.
