[the_gastropod]

I sat on the fence for a long time wanting to do this, and finally pulled the trigger and picked up a Synology NAS last year. I've had a blast setting up a handful of handy little self-hosted services on the thing. Highly recommend giving it a go!

I haven't had any security issues yet (knock on wood). But it seems pretty low-risk if you follow basic best practices. The only thing I have exposed to the internet is a reverse proxy that proxies to a handful of docker containers.