Do your services need to be reachable from outside right from the start? If not, get yourself comfortable with hosting, maintaning and backing up the server. Automate your backups as much as possible and recover at least once from a full backup to check everything!
This should give you a solid baseline to then think about exposing your services, which is arguably the scariest part, but can come afterwards.
Thank you for your response! That’s really good advice. I can hold off for a bit, Joplin is my main service that I’ll need to be able to reach, but can keep using Dropbox to sync for now.
One thing that I haven’t quite sorted is our todos. We use Todoist right now, and it’s really great, but would like something self hosted. I haven’t found anything that has both an iOS and android app though, except Nextcloud. Any suggestions? I was contemplating just using Nextcloud to start to keep things simple, and then adding different services later, but Yunohost seems like a better solution.
I assume you tried using Joplin as a to-do list app? IIRC it worked, but was too fiddly with the square brackets.
Tasks.org is an open-source to-do list app working with multiple providers. On first glance, CalDAV and EteSync might be something for you (ignore DAVx⁵ as it’s a worse CalDAV).
As for me I’m using CalDAV my mail provider mailbox.org is providing me together with Tasks.org on Android and Thunderbird on desktop.
Do your services need to be reachable from outside right from the start? If not, get yourself comfortable with hosting, maintaning and backing up the server. Automate your backups as much as possible and recover at least once from a full backup to check everything!
This should give you a solid baseline to then think about exposing your services, which is arguably the scariest part, but can come afterwards.
Thank you for your response! That’s really good advice. I can hold off for a bit, Joplin is my main service that I’ll need to be able to reach, but can keep using Dropbox to sync for now.
One thing that I haven’t quite sorted is our todos. We use Todoist right now, and it’s really great, but would like something self hosted. I haven’t found anything that has both an iOS and android app though, except Nextcloud. Any suggestions? I was contemplating just using Nextcloud to start to keep things simple, and then adding different services later, but Yunohost seems like a better solution.
I assume you tried using Joplin as a to-do list app? IIRC it worked, but was too fiddly with the square brackets.
Tasks.org is an open-source to-do list app working with multiple providers. On first glance, CalDAV and EteSync might be something for you (ignore DAVx⁵ as it’s a worse CalDAV).
As for me I’m using CalDAV my mail provider mailbox.org is providing me together with Tasks.org on Android and Thunderbird on desktop.