Building Your Own Cloud: A Guide to Home Data Storage Solutions

For years, the cloud was sold as the inevitable future of personal data — convenient, seamless, and managed by institutions with vast resources. Now, a growing number of people are doing the arithmetic and asking a quieter question: what does it cost to let someone else hold the record of your life? A technology journalist's experiment in building a home server captures a broader cultural moment in which convenience and control are being weighed against each other with new seriousness, and the answer is no longer obvious.