Re:Bringing back the PC
by scarecrowbob on Friday May 30, 2014 @03:27PM
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I'm pretty non-savvy about servers, but I have been trying to learn ansible, and at the same time I wanted to consolidate some personal servers, so I used this to deploy more-or-less the same thing on DO the other day:
https://github.com/al3x/sovereign
My experience was that it wasn't impossible, and faster than spinning up a postfix/dovecot server by hand... but it was really buggy and lots of little problems. As far as I could tell, there were some problems using the encfs with the kernal DO uses, and that took a lot of troubleshooting.
I am thinking that at some point there will be a setup that is as easy as, say, spinning out a wordpress site on shared hosting.
The average person can purchase an off the shelf personal cloud and probably get somewhere with storing and accessing files but going beyond that requires help.
As a test I set up owncloud and personal email on a digital ocean droplet just last night on their lowest tier. So far so good. But it needs some help on the user friendly aspects, like sharing a photo gallery.