Hi,
I'm planning to set up my own home hosting to have more control about the data and get less dependent on commercial clouds. I've been reading a lot in this sub and other spaces and would love to hear your opinion about my idea.
Generally I'm planning to do the following
\* Create my own cloud which I want to access remotely (either via tailscale or wireguard)
\* Immich
\* Home assistant
\* Pi hole
\* Probably other things in the future although I won't use the arr Stack
I've been thinking to get a Synology ds225+ with 2x 4tb drives. I don't have too much data at the moment and also not many videos so I think 2 bays will be sufficient for the foreseeable future. As a backup I'd to a monthly backup on a HDD external drive and potentially in a hetzner box. Id also upgrade the ram.
Another idea was to get a mini pc or raspberry pie with external drives , this will probably be cheaper but I feel more tinkering and probably less reliable.
Do you guys think I should go ahead with Synology? Or maybe with a different provider? I understand that Synology has taken back their HDD restrictions, is pretty reliable and works out of the box but there is a price premium to it. Or might it be better to go with ugreen or other systems? I'm mainly looking for something reliable with some tinkering but I don't want to spend every weekend fixing stuff