Building a Private Cloud
A proof of concept documenting the journey of building a private, self-hosted alternative to commercial cloud services — using repurposed hardware, open-source software, and EU infrastructure.
Building a Private Cloud: Self-Hosting for Digital Sovereignty
There is a moment, somewhere between your third Google account recovery and the notification that your iCloud storage is full again, where you start to wonder who all of this is really for. You have thousands of photos, years of memories, sitting on a server in a data center you will never visit, managed by a company whose terms of service you have never read, in a country whose data laws may not protect you. And for the privilege, you pay a monthly fee. ...