I used this a few months ago and it worked fantastically, uploaded like 800G worth of photos!

I’ll add on to this fantastic comment, this is exactly what I do. I use the DNS challenge with a domain I purchased to point to a private IP (my caddy server). I probably do it a bit inefficiently, but I literally have a dns entry for every subdomain of mine and have a separate caddy section for each of them for https. I’ll give an example of a simple entry that uses namecheap as the domain/dns provider:

https://subdomain.domain.net/ {

  tls {
    dns namecheap {
      api_key APIKEY
      user username
      api_endpoint https://api.namecheap.com/xml.response
      client_ip 1.1.1.1
    }
  }

  reverse_proxy 192.168.1.1:1234

} ```

I hope no one would crucify you for it, you’re just trying to help :). I have a plan for offsite backups, but it’s nice to know about alternatives.

Interesting, I’ll take a look. Thanks!

Also, you might want to put the backups in a dedicated partition or drive if you can, so you’d just have to reinstall pbs in case it get bad.

Yea that’s the main plan, the laptop would hold the PBS system, but all backups would go straight to the NAS. if the laptop dies I can just find something else to put PBS on with minimal hassle.

Yea that’s what I’ve seen so far, just a backup of the /etc/pve files and other network configs should be good enough I suppose.

This is my exact setup! I love symfonium because it lets me download specific playlists that I want to have at all times (in case of bad cell service), and feishin for my laptop/desktop where offline downloads aren’t a concern.

I am still keeping an eye on Tempus though, if it gets good enough I might swap over since it’d be one less google play store app.

I just use a WireGuard VPN. Makes it so much more simpler. At this point I don’t think I’ll ever expose anything to the public internet, seems like too much of a headache.

I went with a SciFi ship theme, my main server is VMS-HORIZON (Virtual Machine Ship). The VMs have ship component names like AUDIO-CORE (navidrome) and VISUAL-CORE (Immich).

My Raspberry Pi is named ORBITER, like a orbiting shuttle/satellite, and the VM it has is called BEACON (for Gotify)

I second Beszel, it’s such a clean interface, and I can also have it send alerts through Gotify if my shit breaks!

Hell yeah

The comments give some great advice on what to self host, but my advice to you before you start spinning up a million services is to DOCUMENT EVERYTHING.

Seriously, document as you go and you will thank yourself later. Document niche commands you found online that worked, docker compose files, IP addresses/hostnames, where you put that random config file.

There are some great self hosted wiki and documentation products out there, start with that, then build the fun stuff!

I haven’t really either, just from browsing their website it seems like a federated service you can either host yourself or join someone else’s, and then use their app (or a fork) to invite the people you specifically want to talk to.

I don’t know much about XMPP, but that is what it’s based on.

Ah, that makes sense. A bit aggressive for my needs. Thanks for the info!

There is an option in the Folderpair for instant sync, I believe that is what you’re looking for. I’ve never used it, as I also just do scheduled syncs

That’s what I currently use, it has a fantastic and easy to use UI. It also lets you migrate your desktop license between distros, which was super helpful while I was distro hopping a bunch in the beginning lol

Noob here, is there a benefit to torrenting Linux distros rather than downloading them from the website?

Edit: thank you for the education!

This is my current setup, couldn’t recommended it more!

Caddy is extremely easy to set up for reverse proxies! I have Caddy reverse proxy my headscale server and it’s been a dream. Literally three lines of config per proxy.