![]() Self-hosting mainly relies on your upload speed, and I’ve found that 10 Mb/s upload is adequate for my needs. At my home, my connection can achieve 180 Mb/s download and 10 Mb/s upload speeds. ![]() Most people have high-speed Internet access at their homes and offices. When you host your own services, you have complete control and private access to your own data. These services include email calendars contact providers such as Google Gmail and Hotmail file storage such as Google Drive, DropBox, or Box photo storage such as Google Photos music and movie streaming such as Spotify or Apple Music notes such as Apple Notes and other services. It is about hosting and storing data on your own computers, away from the prying eyes of system administrators, advertisers, and others who might buy, sell, or steal your private data. Self-hosting is an alternative to the public cloud services that are widely available today. This is the first post in a series about protecting your privacy by self-hosting while attempting to maintain the conveniences of public cloud services. A lot of people seem to be willing to trade convenience for privacy without fully realizing what is happening to their data. Of course, Google is not the only company which is collecting this information. If you use Google Assistant or have Google products in your home, it can collect even more information about you, which it uses for selling your personal information to advertisers. Google also tracks your movements across the web through Google Analytics, Captcha, and Google Public DNS. ![]() Your personal information is stored on servers operated by Google and other companies somewhere on the Internet. If you use Chrome and have a Google Account, all of your bookmarks, browsing history, and everything you type into the address bar is sent to and stored on Google servers. I had known that Gmail sorts and filters emails for advertising purposes, but seeing everything consolidated was a big surprise and concern to me. I recently became very concerned about online privacy when I discovered that Google was maintaining a list of everything I’ve purchased and every flight I’ve taken.
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