After listening the video where they discussed immich joining futo, I don't have any worries. I have high hopes futo might actually be the company I have long hoped would emerge. Time will certainly tell.
I think people are getting hung up on the word license too much. Though I agree futo should have gone with a better word choice for clarity. License just means supporter in this case.
At best it will add whatever the extra hop is and any network congestion. My VPS host is 2200km away. I should find a closer one.... but it adds 160ms with some spikes in the 200-300 range. This is round trip 4400km roughly All things considered not too bad. My VPS is a 1vCPU, 1GB ram, 1Gbit unmetered, only as wireguard server. Hope that helps.
I sent you a message They are bit bare bones compared to other host but I haven't had any issues with them in over a year. On the wireguard side you're looking for a spoke and hub setup.
This covers it fairly well. https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2020/11/wireguard-hub-and-spoke-config/
Good luck.
I'm in the same boat so I setup a $2.50/mo VPS and that's my gateway. It took a little bit to get the nftables on vps to work right. I'd recomemned tailscale or similar if you want easy, though I've not ever used them myself.
I've used raspberry pi os and shortly arch arm, both work ok. I remeber having an issue with some python packages on arch arm, but thats it. Personally I chose Debian testing for my headless pi4 and have been happy. It's running Syncthing, Mariadb, a few python scripts to pull data from pi pico-w. FTP server for IP cameras recording, Pydio, Pihole, and Gitea.
I switched to a fiber to the home ISP and only found out they do CG-NAT afterwards. I opted to go VPS with Wireguard and it has been problem free and only cost me $2.50 USD/mo.
Syncthing is great for mirroring files across any number of devices. I use it and love it. Just remember Syncthing itself, is not a backup solution.
Call me a pessimist, but I see this only going the way of a hive mind against whatever becomes unpopular at the moment. The good news is I already have another account elsewhere.
I feel like this is just a lazy one system design for all. Its like subway's question when paying with credit card. I'm not tipping them to make a sandwich, just charge more for the sandwich.
I'll be driving my current vehicle for as long as possible. This data harvesting in cars is ridiculous.
Not much at the moment. Pihole, Pydio, Syncthing, Gitea, Mariadb, Filebrowser, and lighttpd to retrieve weather readings from a homemade weather station.
Destroy and Humans. I just started playing 2 days ago, it is enjoyable for what it is.