Keep your data out of third-party clouds by self-hosting – here’s how

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Self-hosting services on your LAN isn’t as hard as you think.
• By self-hosting, you reclaim control over your data.
• It’s less likely that a third party will use your data to train LLMs.

I started using Google Drive, Gmail, and the whole suite of tools back when they were still invite-only. Back then, the cloud was an unknown entity, and many of us had no idea that it would become the backbone of both…