I’ve setup Nextcloud on Hetzner, and have ordered a mini PC to run Immich and experiment with.

Still trying to decide on a good cheap email host that I can also move my family on to eventually.

Thank you this is very useful, and sounds like a good start. I’ll look into this. Cash isn’t that tight, so I’ll prioritise it being compact and a bit more future proof over doing it cheaply

Synology aren’t Open-Source so that’s a deal breaker for me.

One of the main reasons I’m getting into homelabs etc. Is to take back control of my software and data.

If Synology decides to lock away features behind a pay wall they can.

TrueNAS sounds like the way to go for me, I’m just clueless what hardware would best fit my needs.

Fire

Currently I’m just using CF as a tunnel so that I can reach my server through eg. immich.mydomain.com anywhere in the world. The issue I’m running into is Large files fail (they have file size limits)