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Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by noncoml »

gsreenivas wrote: post #58
noncoml wrote: post #55

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I love your idea and execution. But requiring yearly subscription is defeating the purpose of "Break away from big tech" as I am now tied to your company instead of big tech. What's the point in this?

You can see elsewhere where I discuss what the subscription provides. I think there's a huge difference between subscribing to companies that share customer values around privacy and security vs being at the mercy of companies looking to extract as much value from your data as possible.

OK, thanks for your reply. JFYI It's not what you think that will make or break your business; it's what your potential customers think, that matters.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by gsreenivas »

sneak wrote: post #66
stefan_ wrote: post #48

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So the first thing this "personal server that lives where you do" does is spin up some AWS instance? No thank you.

If the TLS is terminated on the device and all it's using AWS for is a static ip and inbound port for email, that seems pretty harmless.

That's exactly how it works

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by philips »

h4waii wrote: post #31
digitalsushi wrote: post #9

If I could reliably transfer my gmail legacy freebie grandfather thing account without it taking 7 to 11 days of API rate limited transfer at 100% luck, I would get my email out of there. Alas.

Fire up gyb [0] now, and by the time this (or whatever solution you want) is ready for an import, you'll be done. 0. https://github.com/jay0lee/got-your-back

Why this and not takeout?

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by Saris »

gsreenivas wrote: post #47
rodolphoarruda wrote: post #4

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And I wonder how this could work for the 1TB version. Would it compress things locally so they could fit into the available 128GB space?

Hi there - Helm co-founder/CEO here. We will have additional tiers of subscription for customers to back up additional data with us. Everything is locally compressed before uploading and all backups are encrypted with keys only customers have.

Is it not on the site maybe? So far I haven't been able to find anything but the 128GB option.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by gsreenivas »

smoldesu wrote: post #70
gsreenivas wrote: post #52

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Actually no. There is no support for secure boot or proper encrypted storage with a protected key. We prototyped on Pis a while back before we shipped our v1 but there are meaningful limitations.

1. Secure boot is supported on Raspberry Pi, just not out-of-the-box. There's plenty of solutions in this field for your respective needs. 2. Raspberry Pi supports LUKS perfectly fine, making disk encryption a snap.

Would love to see what documentation you have around both of these points. I have not seen anything that indicates the SoC for the Pi supports eFuse or any other OTP storage.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by shoo »

Saris wrote: post #2

$99 a year for 128GB of backup space is really high, but I suppose it's partially paying for the OS updates or something like that? I also wonder about name confusion with Helm the Kubernetes management system.. That said it looks like a nice setup, the hardware price is pretty reasonable for a completed product, and the website is trying to keep things simple.

maybe it's also partly to deal with the ongoing costs of customer support.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by gsreenivas »

wcerfgba wrote: post #67

From [1]: > Does Helm have access to my emails? > The architecture of the system has been designed so that it's not possible for Helm to access your emails. Email senders now support sending emails over an encrypted SSL/TLS channel where the email is only decrypted once it reaches your personal email server. Helm is not able to decode these emails because we don't have access to the encryption key. In the limited sit…

There are no hops for Helm customers. The TLS connections for their domains terminate on their Helm server.

Re: Helm is a personal server that lives where you do

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Post by notimetorelax »

giantg2 wrote: post #74

Seems pretty cool. A little pricey and maybe even overpowered. The biggest thing that holds me back from hosting my own server is probably lack of static IP and the time/cognitive overhead of maintenance/security.

Have been hosting home servers behind DynamicDNS for 5 years now. Have never had any issues because of it. E.g. Namecheap supports the protocol - no need for extra subscription.
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