Have not tried opencloud yet, but one thing that I find interesting is that it doesn’t need a DB. Plan to test. Currently have nextcloud and find the installation a bit of a pain.

My take on the scoring

Very Easy: Multiple easy install methods (e.g., one-command OS package, single binary, and/or Docker). If only one install method it should be single binary or OS package. Great documentation. 18–20 points

Easy: Limited easy methods or only one. Some configuration may be needed, good documentation. 15–17 points

Moderate: Docker is the only method or manual setup. Average to pool documentation 11–14 points

Hard: Complex setup, needs regular updates or custom config (e.g. DNS, spam) 6–12 points

Very Hard or Proprietary: Little to no self-hosting support, undocumented 0–5 points

Have you considered a distributed filesystem such as GlusterFS or DRBD? I believe those support synchronous replication so writes will go to all the configured machines before acknowledging the write. Performance will likely take a hit the greater the number of clusters in the cluster.

Remember wifi can be an issue, even if you don’t have anything exposed outside. If you have a router that comes with a weak password ensure you have changed it.

Full points for Docker

In my opinion anything that only has docker installation should have points removed. Having it as an option is fine,but having it as the only option has several issues

1- Not every OS even has docker. Take for example FreeBSD

2- Many, non technical, people may not have or even know what Docker is. Having it as the only install option actually ads complexity for that group of people

3- Having to install docker for only one system that you want to install adds an entire layer of complexity and in some cases may even outright discourage someone from installing some software

Obsidian with paid sync feature. Have obsidian on multiple computers and devices and don’t have to deal with setup or management of the sync process.

The rest seem to be something moderation may help

Who will moderate? If it is a distributed system and moderation is also distributed bad actors can automate upvotes or whatever means we use for moderation to keep their bad content up.

Some of the ways abuse can happen

• Crawling false data / misinformation on a topic
• Putting info on search as part of a scam / spam campaign
• Putting false news about events that are happening, or have not happened at all
• Putting false information about a business competitor
• Putting fake reviews about a product

Just a few that I can think off… existing websites have the issues too, but what is different is how existing sites decide relevance and how often said algorithms weed out the bad content . In my opinion a distributed search engine will have a harder time at combating those, and other potentials for abuse, because there is less control about what is getting scanned there is an open policy of who can join the distributed scanning.

community for commercial sysadmin type stuff, but the ones I’ve seen are all pretty dead Why not just start putting links / posts to make those active. I am planning to do this for a Postgresql feed.

If you just do a search for <cpu1 model> vs <cpu2 model> often times you get pointed to sites that can do that comparison for you.

For example searching for: J5005 vs i3-1115G4

gave me several links one of which was Intel Core i3-1115G4 vs Pentium Silver J5005 - UserBenchmark

There were several other sites with similar headers.

As for best one for Docker, that too you can search. Specially if you use something like perplexity.ai and you ask which of those two is better for docker it gives you a nice comparison along with which areas one is better than the other as it pertains to using Docker. Suspect you can get similar good info from using any Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT or Claude.ai (both of which have free plans)

Don’t see installation instructions on git page. Are there installations instructions anywhere?

Restic for backup - can send backups to S3 and SFTP amongst other target options.

There are S3 (block storage) compatible services, such as Backblaze’s B2, which are very affordable for backups.