I tried to compare some backup solutions a while back: https://hedgedoc.ptman.name/kket4uo9RLiJRnOhkCzvWw#
Forget about docker. Run caddy or some similar webserver that is a single file next to the assets to serve.
How full is your ZFS? ZFS doesn’t handle disk filling and fragmentation well.
Linux is quite lightweight. Pick a distro that doesn’t run a lot of stuff by default. OpenBSD only runs sshd exposed to the network, AFAIR. Debian probably does the same. But really, the lightness comes from what isn’t running. NixOS, fedora, rocky, alpine are all decent alternatives.
Make a spreadsheet of where your money is going.
https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Or then you can just realize that the time you spend is spent not making money and you need to save time, not services.
zram or a cloud instance with more ram https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/
Got bought
cryptpad si quite good
Gandi is no longer a good choice
I see. I’m an old fart and couldn’t care less about gifs. But I do care about stuff being open instead of someone suddenly telling me the conditions have changed.
what about an actually free alternative, like matrix + element?
I’ve read some old DOS manual. And several Linux books back from the days when Linux came on CDs alongside books.
There are different kinds of documentation https://diataxis.fr/
HP Microserver + openmediavault or similar.
Minimum, but it still doesn’t get below 23C in the winter
Quite far: