Hey, folks!
So, the card linked to my hetzner account expired, and while I updated it everywhere else, the hetzner info fell through the cracks. They deleted my storageshare server, and erased everything, because I'm a fool, and didn't have their emails going to an account I ever check. I've spent the last several days feeling like I'd had a digital housefire. Things kept popping into my head, photos I had taken 10 years ago, or early drafts of the novel I'm writing... It's been pretty fucking depressing.
But, tonight, I fired up a laptop I haven't used in a while to find that most of what was in nextcloud was backed up on it. It's not everything, but it's the bulk of it.
I'd like for this to never happen again. I'm wondering if there's a complete idiot's guide to self hosting nextcloud? When I say I know nothing about this, please believe me. We're talking starting from scratch. I've never self hosted anything, and I have no idea where to begin. I'm on fedora silverblue, but just because I'm using linux doesn't mean I know anything. It just means I'm cheap. Haha. All I know is that I never want to go through that feeling of complete loss again. I'll make sure that whatever I do, it'll be backed up in two locations at least. I was paying for the family plan, and my brother, his wife, my mom, and a friend lost access to their stuff, too. So far as I know, there isn't a back up of their stuff. I really messed up here.
Any help is really appreciated, thanks in advance!
I've always wondered if Backblaze B2 would accept advance payments. I would love that
B2 warns you, in advance, if your payment mechanism is expiring. And then, they don't immediately delete your account or data if you're late.
If you find out they accept advance payment, let me know; and I'll do the same. Based on their charge model, you won't be able to pay for X months, but I'd like to, say, have an account balance they will draw on if my payments fail.
I'm in particular considering the case of my untimely death. I have instructions for my family to get at all the backups, just in case, but if I die dealing with that is going to be really low on their list of priorities. I'd like to know that, 6 months after my CC stops working, my family will still be able to access my backups if they need to.
I double back-up onto SSD, but still.
I would like account credits too, but I don't know if they do that for single users. I do think they have something like that for enterprises