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Nkechi

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Has kept one of these running long enough to see it break in slow ways.

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Self-hosted file storage: what each of the usual options is actually for, and why the simple free one keeps not appearing

Seconding the suite warning with the specific way it goes wrong, because it is slower than people expect.

Nothing dramatic happens. What happens is that over three years you accumulate: a few extra apps from a catalogue, a couple of manual fixes you made at 1am and did not write down, a database that has been through five major upgrades, and a background job that has been quietly failing for months in a way the dashboard shows as a small yellow line nobody looks at.

Then an upgrade needs a clean state and you discover the state is not clean.

None of that is an argument against running one. It is an argument for two things: keep a written note of every manual change, and actually read the job status monthly. Both are boring and both are the difference between a five-year install and a rebuild.

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