I would very much like to move from Google and Microsoft and other proprietary, non privacy services.
I have spent hundreds of $ and thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms and every single one of them has been difficult, annoying, frustrating, and ultimately fails.
I have concluded I am just not the guy to do this as I am Windows CAD guy and have no idea what I am doing with networking, Linux or CLI. 90% of the words and terms in tutorials are greek to me.
I am looking for notes (Joplin), Google Drive replacement (NextCloud?), and email (??) on a cloud server. And then video streaming (plex or jellyfin + *arr?) and photo management (immich?) on my local machines.
Let me know if you are interested or know of somewhere better to post this.
This is an interesting question.
Off hand I’d say look for a local SMB network consulting firm - the type that maintains numerous small clients (shops with 2 to 50 employees).
They typically charge in two ways: base by-the-hour as-needed or a “maintenance” plan where you have a contract and it includes a certain number of hours per month.
They aren’t cheap - in the $200/hr range depending on your locale.
But maybe by talking to them, you’ll eventually find a person or company that wants to take on this sort of thing.
You could also look for a local Linux/technical club. Or maybe a local school that has IT classes, could be a project for a class, or the teacher could know someone.
Just some ideas. I do think this is an upcoming market segment.