
That means that all other services are only available after connecting to the virtual private network. I have decided to hide the installed services on my NAS, except the VPN service, which must be accessible from public. In further sections I will refer to and explain how I used them. The following shows a list of items this article is based on. Friends of mine were using Synology NAS devices for years with good experiences. For this purpose a NAS device is perfect. I decided to host my own Cloud, which is completely under my control. For one thing, it is an overkill for private users and for another thing your data would be still somewhere else. What do I need for a private cloud?Įnterprise private clouds are managed internally or by third-party, and hosted either internally or externally with services like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud or VMware Private Cloud. That was the point in time I decided to get my own Cloud. It does not matter how, but I nearly lost them. I was so optimistic, that a geek would be careful enough to not harm such data. In the past I saved these kind of files on a second partition, on memory sticks or on external hard disks, like many other people. Others like Microsoft, Apple and Amazon they are able to do the same thing.Īnother important topic is centrally backing up and accessing of documents, pictures and videos. Don’t get me wrong! This kind of behavior is not restricted to Google only.

As we know that companies like Google can gain access to various three-letter-agencies. But there is another side of the coin, which you may not ignore. Everything has started years ago with my first device, an Apple iPhone 3G, with which I started to use some Google cloud services like Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Tasks and Google Contacts.Īll of these free services are clearly very useful, user-friendly and offer an easy integration into iOS and Android.

Like many people out there, I am an owner of a smart phone. In this post I will show you how I have created my own cloud environment and replaced some Google services, which I have used before on my smart phone and PC.

It’s time to continue with a technical article. Sigh, my last blog post is several months old.
