FlorisBoard with the Material theme.
Tried many, but FlorisBoard's bugs bug me the least, not that there are many. The one feature I wanted was password manager autofill bar, FlorisBoard worked the best at the time and has been solid since. Material theme is nice too.
I've read a lot of outcry about this wrt self-hosted mail servers.
Some say this is fatal, some say it has no effect. Both sides seem to have valid technical arguments. It would be nice to understand the effects better.
My biased opinion is that most people run Nextcloud on an underpowered platform, and/or they install and enable every possible addon. Many also skip some important configurations.
If you run NC on a bit more powerful machine, like a used USFF PC, with a good link to it, the experience is better than e.g. OneDrive.
Another thing is, people say "Nextcloud does too much", but a default installation really doesn't do much more than files. If you add every imaginable app, sure it slows down and gets buggy. Disable everything you don't need, and the experience gets much better. You can disable even the built-in Photos app if you don't need it.
Not saying NC is a speed daemon, but it really is OK. The desktop and mobile clients don't get enough love, that's true.
I'm talking about the "bare metal" installation or the community Apache/FPM container images. AIO seems to be a hot mess, and does just about everything a container shouldn't be doing, but that's just my opinion.
Borgbackup in addition to git. Since there's probably not much data, any cheap VPS could act as storage.
If the browser is installed as a flatpak, I think it only gets permission to either the directory the HTML file is in, or just the single HTML file.
Snaps probably have a similar permission restriction.
Keep at it! The learning curve is not a straight line, just like with any skill. You'll see fast progress, just to be followed by a long plateau of no progress or even feel you're getting worse. And then you notice possibly big improvement again. And again.
Don't worry about following sheets/chords initially. If chords are not in your muscle memory, you're basically doing three complex tasks simultaneously, reading, figuring out chords and fingering chords. I'd try to memorize one or two simple pieces first, to get the chords under your belt. Start simple and stay patient, it'll take time.
Don't forget the rhythm. Play on top of recordings. You can be pretty liberal with the harmonics, but if you keep a steady beat it'll probably still sound good.
Portability is the key for me, because I tend to switch things around a lot. Containers generally isolate the persistent data from the runtime really well.
Docker is not the only, or even the best way IMO to run containers. If I was providing services for customers, I would definetly build most container images daily in some automated way. Well, I do it already for quite a few.
The mess is only a mess if you don't really understand what you're doing, same goes for traditional services.
Most likely, a Hetzner storage box is going to be so slow you will regret it. I would just bite the bullet and upgrade the storage on Contabo.
Storage in the cloud is expensive, there's just no way around it.
There was a good blog post about the real cost of storage, but I can't find it now.
The gist was that to store 1TB of data somewhat reliably, you probably need at least:
Which amounts to something like 6TB of disk for 1TB of actual data. In real life you'd probably use some other level of RAID, at least for larger amounts so it's perhaps not as harsh, and compression can reduce the required backup space too.
I have around 130G of data in Nextcloud, and the off-site borg repo for it is about 180G. Then there's local backups on a mirrored HDD, with the ZFS snapshots that are not yet pruned that's maybe 200G of raw disk space. So 130G becomes 510G in my setup.
I wish I knew about Photon before. Just spun up my own instance and loving it!
At this stage I'll probably just mirror my stuff from GH. I have a feeling they'll be doing something stupid soon, forcing people to look for alternatives.
Would be nice to collaborate with others, but getting started is hard when you don't have enough free time.
It seems Gitea has basic CI + package registries now, that will be plenty for my needs.
I've used one called CIFS Documents Provider in the past, worked very well.
It adds SMB/CIFS as a storage provider like Google Drive or Nextcloud to the Android built in file manager.
Available only from Play Store, AFAIK. And I think I was still on Android 14 last I used it.