DokuWiki as private personal online wiki for reading notes

Posted by nathanb
Jun 7, 2018 at 01:56 PM

>Paul Korm wrote:
>I could, but, no, I haven’t opened the NAS up to the Internet. The NAS
>is private data I don’t need to access remotely. If I did want to
>expose DocuWiki I would install it on one of the domains I own and host
>at Dreamhost. I don’t want to be in the self-hosting business when
>someone else can worry about the certificates, security, backup,
>operating system updates and patches, and so on.
>

This is a good point and one I struggle with. Torn between wanting to ‘control my own data’ and having to learn security (and keep continuously up-to-date on it). Having it ‘professionally’ hosted is better for both security and reliability. Maybe this is one of those 80/20 things where very little of my data is ‘top secret’ and I don’t care if it falls into the wrong hands. Therefore I should keep the sensitive info (~20% of files) on my internal system and keep the rest conveniently accessible on most screens in and out of the house.