I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.

I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.

I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.

I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.

Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.

  • @[email protected]English
    6•7 months ago

    This is an interesting question.

    Off hand I’d say look for a local SMB network consulting firm - the type that maintains numerous small clients (shops with 2 to 50 employees).

    They typically charge in two ways: base by-the-hour as-needed or a “maintenance” plan where you have a contract and it includes a certain number of hours per month.

    They aren’t cheap - in the $200/hr range depending on your locale.

    But maybe by talking to them, you’ll eventually find a person or company that wants to take on this sort of thing.

    You could also look for a local Linux/technical club. Or maybe a local school that has IT classes, could be a project for a class, or the teacher could know someone.

    Just some ideas. I do think this is an upcoming market segment.