Cloudflare outages.
Go offline.
Published Nov 18, 2025 · Around 1 minute to read
Cloudflare outages make me glad I moved all of my digital stuff offline.
Here's how to do it yourself:
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Get a NAS. I repurposed an old PC with 4TB hard drives and installed TrueNAS Scale.
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Download everything into your NAS. Most services allow you to grab your data. Notion export, Gmail export, rclone Google Drive etc.
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???
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Profit
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I built my NAS last year, but felt intimidated by all the technicalities of actually setting it up. Claude Code was a savior. I was able to design, document, and implement a proper backup solution.
I lost all my data a few years ago when my external hard drive crashed. I figured the cloud was more secure so I moved everything there. Now with consistent outages (and privacy concerns), I don't think my data is safe in the cloud either. So I'm using some combination of the two. For now. To be continued.
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