So if you want to cherry pick fille you use nextcloud, otherwise use syncthing.

I think you should not mention at all using plain http protocol. The only way to go is https, especially when the gui you will be accessing do basic auth.

You can give hints toward the very easy to use letsencrypt configuration tool.

I run both Nextcloud and Syncthing on my home server (Ubuntu 16.04 server). I love Nextcloud, but find Syncthing to be faster and like being able to do things such as set up a one-way “sync” to easily send files from my phone or laptop to my server.

That sounds nice! Thanks for sharing. A fanless media PC sounds fun :)

I didn’t want to make off-site backups but naturally the internal SSD needs a mirror, so I put in a mechanical 2tb drive that only spins up at 4am to make a simple rsync. It also spins up temporarily whenever I make backups from any of my computers to it via Duplicati. Tempted to try Restic now too though!