Humble Beginnings

My homelab journey started around 3 years ago while I was an undergrad studying computer science. I had gotten fed up with paying Google every month just to store my photos and files. I wanted a solution to store all my photos and files locally. As a student, I had no money at the time, so I purchased a Raspberry Pi. Following an excellent guide by Jay LaCroix from on Learn Linux TV, I soon had my very own personal cloud. I used Google’s takeout feature to exfiltrate all my digial assets. After importing all my data to Nextcloud, I had accomplished the original goal: get my data under my own roof.