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Alright so this is a feature that a homelab user can actually use - backups. Could you expand on how you will be managing this feature / plan to implement it once it is offered?

Very good question, the backup/restore processes are under development. We would like to use the Borg backup for and prepared the backup services for access each others both local network and vpn network. You can find it takeing a look at the source code of the framework-scheduler repository (https://github.com/safeboxnetwork/framework-scheduler/blob/main/scripts/scheduler/entrypoint.sh # it is started at line 1339)

I mentioned earlier that your branding seems to emphasize security - but all I’m seeing is mention of existing security features inherent in the software being wrapped. Does your team do additional tuning for security? Do they have experience in infrastructure security, hardening systems, or the like? To be clear I just want to better understand the branding and what is being offered.

Hi, I am one of developers from Safebox and would like to answer your security related questions: you have right, our Safebox platform contains only a HAproxy loadbalancer and Nginx backend proxies to route your domain based TCP packets and does not responsible for security of the 3rd party providers applications. That means Safebox is not more secure as the installed 3rd party applications, because if the application you install isn’t secure or you don’t take care of your passwords, then your data could still be stolen. But it does provide security in the sense that you know where your data is, and you know that it belongs to you.

In addition we plan to develop a 'homeguard' plugin for Safebox to manage accessing the main platform and set individualy permissions via backend proxies to access the deployed 3rd party applications.

So my point I was driving at - especially with such a diverse offering of wireguard services which do not charge for (effectively) VPN access to your own infrastructure - I was more interested in why your service would be looking to pay gate it as a “premium” feature.

This would be different if we were talking you hosting all these services on your infrastructure but considering the marketing to homelab - I find it to be an unusual choice… And was curious as to the reason for the decision.

Right now, we’re not charging anything for our service. In the future, if we do, it would only cover things like domain registration, proxy setup, and some extra features such as monitoring and traffic analytics.

It’s important to mention that using our service isn’t required for Safebox to work. You can use your own domain provider, set up a VPS with a public IP, point your domain to it, and everything will work just fine.

I asked one of our developers to answer your other question since he can give you a more accurate answer.

To be fair, the pro plan is for the non-local stuff, which is at least understandable as domains and resolution services are non-free.

Also ongoing development takes resources. Seems like a reasonable approach.

I say this as someone who absolutely despises subscriptions.

Thanks! That's a mistake, the pro version is currently completely free in beta.