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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/FeineSahne6Zylinder on 2025-02-01 14:13:07+00:00.
I went down the rabbithole of selfhosting around 20 months ago. I'm running around 20 services and my experience has been good. The usual stuff, Pihole, Arr, Uptime Kuma, Postgres, Nginx, etc and a bunch of my own things.
I recently gave Paperless-NGX a shot and I like it. I'm now feeling the urge to scan & index all my old documents and get rid of the annoying physical paper. But that raises the question, how much do I trust my setup? Am I comfortable digitizing bank and tax statements? Or should I keep it at the level of "invoices from years ago"?
I think I'm doing all the right things like Raid1, regular scrubbing, backups to NAS, backups to S3, quarterly backups to an external HDD, encryption of everything, daily monitoring with Grafana, daily or weekly container and OS upgrades, ARR suite on a different physical machine in a different VLAN, no pirated software, nothing exposed to internet (apart from my Tailscale derp server that's running on cloud) and so on. I have a CS degree and a large part of my day job is convincing F500 companies why it's cool if they put their crown jewel data into my employer's SaaS in the cloud, so I think I know a thing or two about the space. But still somehow I'm terrified that at some point I make a mistake and my data is either gone or hacked and exposed. I somehow still feel more at piece when my data is in Onedrive and my photos in iCloud and not Immich lol.
Curious how people in this sub feel about homelab safety and durability and where you draw the line around what data goes into your selfhosted stack.