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  • The data remains yours if you encrypt it. Someone else's computer saves you all the time and effort of maintaining and monitoring hardware.

    You want to use the actual services meant for this. S3 or glacier or something, not just consumer cloud storage like Google drive or Dropbox.

  • Self hosting principals aside, is this data actually important? If so, then don't fuck around with self hosting it. Are you looking for lowest cost? Then don't waste a bunch of money spinning your own disks.

    Amazon glacier to guarantee availability and your own encryption to guarantee privacy.

    It's currently running me about $4/month for around 10tb that I don't want to lose but just don't want to deal with. An equivalent HDD solution would be around $500, that's 10 years to break even assuming zero disk failures and zero personal maintenance time.

    Plus it's guaranteed. Inherent multiple copies, has SLA, and there's no worry about the service just disappearing. It's they decide to shut down or raise prices or whatever, you can reevaluate and move.

    Edit: Glacier and similar services are meant for archival which is the term OP used. You never expect to need it again, but can't get rid of it. Retrieval cost is mostly irrelevant, but yes much more expensive. (I'd wager still less expensive than a home RAID array.)

  • OP asks for "lowest latency" but HTTP is fast enough, and later in the thread says "perceptibly instant" is the goal. HTTP is going to be your slowest option, almost certainly, but even the slowest solution is "instant".

    What exactly are you trying to do, OP?

    (Esphome seems like the answer you're looking for. It's faster than MQTT and you can program parts of the automation and service management in the ESP hardware. RF is probably the only way to go faster.)

  • Yeah, lesson learned there, but to OP's point, nothing ever seems to just work.

    Fun part in my case is that the specific bulb I want doesn't have a ZHA-compatible counterpart. (Hue a19 white& color 1100. The 800 isn't bright enough.)

  • Hospitals haven't been non profit since they were delayed in the early 1980s, and are absolutely structured for profit, with shareholders and conglomerate ownership and everything.

    The medical write offs are exactly that. Tax avoidance.