>>109215994
They do exist, but I should warn you that availability can be extremely low. Worth a try as a first port of call though, then you can fall back on a mini PC or something if you can't get one.
I think with Oracle the way it works is you can only get VPS at your nearest regional centre they run, but also they take your region on good faith when you tell them, but also also once you set your region you cannot change it. It may be wise to look up availability and lie about your region if its poor near you.
They will take down a fair amount of information about you, including your phone number, but since you're doing purely above board, upright, and socially in the clear things here I don't see why you should care about that.
With mine, they did call me one time and ask me the general category of thing I was using the server for. I don't know why they did this. It was basically a choice between hobbyist, developer, enterprise planning etc. I told them hobbyist, which I assume is the lowest possible value for them, and my servers remained online. Maybe they do it so if you answer "enterprise" they can get you moving along with that quicker and so make money.
On the cards, I have some ideas about how that works, but I really don't feel confident enough about it to advise you on it when money is at stake, particularly when you seem to be in America from some of your word choices where it may work differently than I expect. Good luck though. I think it's a fun idea. It's got me thinking about how I might do something similar.

>>109216601
they have a clear non-idling policy and many people complained about suddenly having their shit wiped out and closed for that reason.
>20% resource usage at least or fuck off
it says right there when you join.

>>109216738
Never happened to me but from what you say it certainly sounds like it can happen.
If that is a concern I guess anyone doing it this way should find something to keep their server occupied. Their free VPSs are quite weak so that shouldn't be that hard, even without resorting to something that just wastes cycles.

>>109216738
Alternative to free would be to scour LowEndBox for cheap VPS deals. You can get one for less than $1/month. I imagine you're not getting a great VPS for the price, but probably still more reliable than a free one.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

I've tried multiple times to sign up for Oracle Cloud but never succeeded

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say I have 12 personal drives laying around

the oldest one from 2006

and they're all old Windows installations throughout the years and I want them archived and sorted but I'm too poor for a 10+ SATA server so I make do with a NAS with USB drive dock

what FOSS solution is there for indexing preferably with local AI? (Immich is already running)

>>109218898
indexing what kind of files exactly?

Need to run a halfway beefy game server (modded minecraft, and probably other home server things), preferably one that's power efficient. My google cloud free trial ran out, it was a C4 balanced compute instance, it was managing the server decently, but I wouldn't want to go much less powerful. Digging about that seems kinda comparable to a 16GB M1 mac, which I've bid on 2nd hand. The optiplexes I'm seeing 2nd hand have a lot less processing power (intel 7th to 10th gen), and they chug through a few kWh too. I made a pair of spreadsheets comparing other 2nd hand computers and the M1 was by far the best compute power per dollar that would be capable of running the game, at like 300USD, though I'm unsure how it will increase when the bidding closes tomorrow.

My other thought is getting a clearance Beelink ERQ7 with the 7735HS and 24GB RAM for ~750USD. 2nd hand there are some similarly powerful boxes for similar prices (i7 12700T or i5 1334U HP mini PCs, and an i5 12500 optiplex), but that 7735HS is a pretty power efficient chip, plus the 24GB is nice. The only downside is the soldered RAM and CPU, but all mini PCs with RAM sockets come as barebones and I'm not going to get better value buying RAM seperately in this era.

Actually that HP Elite Mini 800 G9 is only 460USD and has socketed RAM and CPU, and comes with 16GB RAM and a 715GB SSD. That's probably smarter. Shame I'm more after single core performance with the server, but I've got mods that multithread things. Also I've heard that the TDP ratings for intel CPUs can get kinda funky as they're pretty conservative with the default clock frequencies.

Any particular reasons to call me a moron?

>>109217464
Same, they don't accept my visa debit card.

>>109219121
Make something out of old components you have laying around and buy a 5800x3d.

>>109219134
I have built 1 (one) computer, less than two years ago, and it has all of the parts inside it that I have never replaced or upgraded, beyond a fan or two. I am a board tourist, sorry to say.

>>109219147
Damn sounds like you're going to get raped then.

>>109219158
Yeah, I sure wish I did this a year ago.

has proxmox patched the new kvm escape yet

>>109219121
>Any particular reasons to call me a moron?
heat and noise
i would build that in a atx case
just had a i7 12700 minipc melt because of some number crunching stats app ran for 72 hours

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>>109219180
Nope

>>109219180
Use case? Why would I want to maliciously escape from my vm to my proxmox?

>>109219230
rip

>>109219180
This sounds bad but I hate updating

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>>109219060
anything, really:
>(Word) docs
>shitton of images (photographs & memes)
>shitton of unfinished Adobe projects
>old-ass .mp3's

I was hoping there's something around that could intensively check all metadata but I'm afraid I might have to vibecode something

>>109219631
stashapp?
it's usually used for pr0n collections but might be able to be tweaked to work with your word docs, images, adobe & mp3s.
or failing that, DataCrow.

>>109219853
>scan home videos into stash app
>they all have porno thumbnails now
Kek

how do niggas completely remove a movie if it's synced between radarr, seerr and qbittorrent? is there tool to do it with one click?

It's funny, alpine billed itself as the distro to use in containers, but I've been using it solely as the head distro in my devices for controlling VMs/containers. It's pretty comfy for how simple it is, though

>>109221924
it’s fine and intended for both containerization and running containers.

Can one of you cucks explain to me why it's a bad idea to run docker on an lxc container?

>>109222135
just use podman if you want better containerization for your containers

>>109222276
That wasn't the question, cuck.

>>109222135
Usecase?

>>109222364
docker runs as root so you should containerize your containers so you can non-root compute while you compute

>>109222368
Ya just podman instead and run every container as a different non root user

>>109221011
Thank fuck I don't use those arrs.

Is serving a website from your router with a reverse proxy a bad idea?

>>109221011
Consider the following:
>seerr is for ur family to order a new kino
>qbittorrent is wired with radarr and does what radarr says over API
>radarr is the core of arr, everything else is just perks on top
Then try it out and see what happens, faggot. Try seerr first, as it's the highest abstraction lvl. If you see that it's gone from radarr, qBittorrent and storage, then that's it.

>>109222135
Any reason to not have a separate VM for docker stuff? Are you a RAMlet?

hiiii girlies. i think ive finally settled on a home labbing setup utilizing a mini rack i will 3D print. i discovered these dell poweredge caddies that seem really cool, is there some sort of backplane i can get for them to make the drives hot swappable? anything you would recommend? please help me out =w=

>>109219191
So it's the intel TDP after all. Depending on what level of over/underclocking I can get away with, I'm definitley not opposed to modifying the case. I've got spare fans and a 3D printer, plus various non-PC heat-sinks I can probably use.
I'm still wondering about the value calculation between the 12700, the M1, and the 7735HS, but I guess that's a calculation only I can answer.

What is it like running linux on an M1 for a server? Stable?

>>109223591
>mini rack

>>109217588

>>109218898
>>109219631
You know what would be fun? You could P-to-V the drives and have little bootable versions of your past.

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>wonder why 3 of my zpools were slowing down but just chalked it up to VPN being busy
>suddenly read errors out the ass leading to cksum errors across the other pools
>turns out a single dying drive was constantly asking to reset the entire HBA and interrupting pool-to-pool TXs
any way to prevent this in the future or is that just a feature of Adaptec shit?

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>>109219121
Some guy out bit me last minute for 430USD and I was too apprehensive to follow through. But that 12700T seems like it will be more power hungry than I'd like. I'll scrounge about a bit more for local machines on this list:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html#all-cpu
That rival the M1 for processing power, preferably in the 15W TDP bracket instead of the 35W. But if I get the 12700T machine I can always upgrade the CPU later to something like a 13900T, hopefully running cooler for the same load. That's the advantage of getting a machine with sockets.

I just spent ~$1000 on a Seagate Expansion 28TB I wanna throw up
Anyways I thought Seagate externals dont have smart cause it didnt work before for me i looked it up and apparently they do but long ago apparently using it caused corruption so the kernel devs disabled SMART by default on all Seagate USB IDs.
So I just wanna ask, can anyone confirm its really safe to use these methods to restore SMART on new Seagate externals? I want to have SMART but ofc I dont want to risk corruption due to bugs.
No im not shucking it for now, not unless I can do it without destroying the case and while in warranty. Just another reason to buy WD but thats besides the point with the shortages.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/976l0w/deleted_by_user/ecv5q5a/
https://mcgarrah.org/usb-drive-smart/
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SAT-with-UAS-Linux#PermanentFlagSettings

>>109226428
>I just spent ~$1000 on a Seagate Expansion 28TB I wanna throw up
That's extraordinarily bad value.

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it's over...

>>109226490
Went up $300 as I was looking at it and close to selling out , everything else is twice the price and way worse $/TB.
Murder all AI users and investors.

>>109226509
28 TB Seagates are $820 on Amazon.com.

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how often do you upgrade your system? it's such a pain in the ass
>either upgrade and hope for the best
>or spend the rest of the weekend fixing a system that doesn't boot

>>109226525
i run unattended updates with ubuntu pro but i reboot manually (thinking about configuring reboots every month because i don't even want to do that) .

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should I buy/build a nas to feed to my server or should I just buy a hdd bay? surely usb 3.0 is more than enough for my 1g network? I have an old single bay synology laying around that I could hook it to make a makeshift nas.

Got two 12TB drives and a single 4TB one. What should I do? I have an old office PC, and my current gaming PC case doesn't have any room for any hard drives (the PSU is too long). I also have two 256GB SATA SSDs

>>109226705
>Got two 12TB drives and a single 4TB one. What should I do?
Give them to me.

>>109226759
no.

for me it's a fleet of nixos vms

>>109226672
nas

Any good self-hosted finance/portfolio tracker?

>>109226525
server at home? like once a month followed by reboot. never had a problem with it not starting because of that. but it's debian stable
at work? once a quarter or so, but i test rebooting one first just to be sure and not break 200+ machines all at once. rocky 9

>>109228448
sure finance (formely maybe)
actual budget

>>109226672
I’ve heard bad things about running RAID to USB hard drives, but maybe that’s just for when the drives are each independent USB drives, not all running off the same USB slave controller.

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Some anons will never know the endorphin rush from being able to press this button and see the lights flicker

>>109230367
my router has a library that i can use to change settings via python. i can turn shit on and off with it. ask for a new ip and change a bunch of other stuff.

What yall using for snmp monitor graphs n shiet?

>>109230432
not interesting. i just ignore shit.

Deluge or qbittorrent for my docker compose server?

>>109221011
Just delete it in Radarr and tick the box that deletes the file.
Plex will pick up the deletion on next library scan
Seer probably won't give a shit either way, it's just a request portal.

>>109230367
Some anons have never pushed a power button?

>set up vpn server
>sign certs on air gapped machine with ed25519
>sorry, despite openssl creating and signing the ca and key, it is actually libressl and can't understand ed25519 certs
>check bug tracker
>yeah we know and we cant be bothered adding it two years ago
i fucking hate this retarded shit man.

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https://github.com/ran-sama/nftables-rsyslog-iptables

It's no big deal and maybe could be done better, but I made the actual effort to do ingress chains. Either way, I prefer my logs silent.

>>109232041
then use wireguard and a proper vps or your own baremetal server to host your vpn server. what autistic distro was it forcing libre* on you?

>>109232525
>>109232041
addendum because autistic:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/913
ECDSA is safe up until 1200 signatures, then even a single bit of poor randomness has fully leaked your private key. you probably don't need fancy shmancy safe Ed25519 unless you issue a lot of signed certs.

I just moved into an apartment that's been converted from an industrial space, it has really thick concrete walls and no holes or tubes to run wires through (even the power lines were just straight up ran through the concrete before it set, fuck the codes amirite). You probably see where this is going. Am I going to hell if I run all my devices (including a couple of servers) on Wi-Fi? Should I be spending a shitton on one of those spider-looking routers? I genuinely don't know much about wireless connections, I used to have everything wired up in my old place.

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>>109232643
Powerline works fine unless you have (V)DSL[2]. it emits a lot of harmful crosstalk on the same frequency as vital broadband internet tech. if you use coax (lmao cuck) or fibre (god), you'll be okay. No wifi please.

>>109232704
The wiring is as old as the building (being fucking embedded in the walls and all that) so about 40 years old, would that be a problem for powerline? I have 2.5GB of full duplex fiber and I've been told 10GB will be available in a year or so, so my WAN connection won't be an issue.

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>>109230367
I got a supermicro server with a BMC with web management ui. When the host is powered off it makes zero noise, for me its powering the host on, fans turn on, then turn into a jet engine, then turn down when the host OS loads and my custom service that throttles fan speeds based on nvidia-smi and cpu temps takes effect and the noise levels become tolerable

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>>109233133
Dampening with wifi or powerline both is inevitable, but powerline has proven more reliable in my case where wifi failed hard. Buy in a store with free returns and check that the highest Mbit/s are supported on the adapter as well as the latest standard.

I'd be lying to make predictions, but I can almost guarantee powerline will come you way cheaper and not hiccup. Also it supports multiple adapters. My use case was penetrating floors where wifi failed due to steel concrete. Gapping up to 50 meters from 3 rd floor to basement with some speed loss in the most extreme example.

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>>109233154
>my custom service that throttles fan speeds based on nvidia-smi and cpu temps
here's my custom service:

>>109233268
>here's my custom service
okay but i have an AI accelerator, sometimes i actually need the fans to blast harder so this knocking speeds down with resistors wouldnt help

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>>109233296
>fans to blast harder
nah, all cool here

>>109233171
I always assumed the inductors inside circuit breakers stopped these from working between breakers, but apparently not. I guess the signal capacitively couples through the coils. Apparently they can work across phases too, could be coupling or just being a differential signal across one of the lives AND neutral.

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>>109233425
Inductors? There is only a coil in my fuse that measures if phase is connected to ground through a human body and not the neutral as intended. But I don't know all the details.

I wanted a mini PC to host my jellyfin instance + gogs + website. The cheapest one I could find is the Beelink Mini S13 (Intel N150, 12Gb RAM, 512Gb storage) for 370 yurobucks.
Should I pull the trigger? I'm having a hard time finding anything cheaper that can decode AV1.

>>109232525
thanks. im old and stupid. will investigate.
>>109232552
..uh..

>>109233425
hams hate this one trick
they turn your house into an antenna that annoys radio operators miles away.
wouldn't be surprised if the signal can couple onto completely separate wiring and still work.

>>109232643
You can buy nearly invisible bendable fiber for really cheap on AliExpress now. That and some media converters or SFP modules should have you set without any drilling

>>109233585
Yes powerline will turn ham neighbours on suicide watch and make them depressed. One gave up his hobby because of my powerline, but he didn't off himself.

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>>109233171
PLC is like russian roulette and depends of the quality of all the neighbors injecting their shit, in the same borough, if you live in a "conductive" or "inductive" line, from distributor's power transformer to clients, with disgusting impedance quality then good luck with througput and stability.

>>109234047
hence why an online store with returns, russian roulette is the most accurate way to put it

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How do you not get despondent over HDD prices?

>>109234639
everything else is going to shit at the exact same time so it's hard to get too upset over any particular thing being ruined

>>109216556
>READ THE (temp)WIKI! & help by contributing
I'll give it a read later, but may I get a TL;DR first?

I'd like to learn how to selfhost my own simple services (messaging, email, file sharing (like catbox), pastebin, etc.), so that I don't have to depend on external services, and to share them with close friends as well. I don't care about hosting movies/music or whatever. What type of hardware do I need? what are some good guides (written/video) with absolutely no bs and go straight to the point? Anything important I need to know beforehand? I know nothing about this and adjacent topics, but I'm good enough with Linux/CLI I'd say.

Maybe it's because of the FUD floating around in recent years (specially this one), but I want to get serious into this shit asap. Thank you for reading my blog. Pic unrel.

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>>109234984
And of course I forget to attach the picture. Btw, I'm not planning on going full autismo just yet, I'd just like to get stuff up and running before doing that. The sooner the better.

Opinions on LGA 1851 for server use?
I was going to spec out some chinkpress LGA 2011-3 dual CPU server but honestly it's not much cheaper than using DDR5 and a modern board instead.
W880 boards are expensive so I was just going to get some B860 or maybe Z890 and slap maybe the 250K Plus in it. Seems like it'll be more efficient and less of a headache than running dual 2680v4's.

>>109234984
I'm kind of a beginner at this but yeah, here is my opinion
Hardware can literally be some old machine, when I started out I bought my friend's old 8600K PC and threw HDDs in it, installed Truenas and just learned things bit by bit.
(The negative is that now I'm kinda locked on truenas since I have everything on there, and it's not really happy with the more power-user things that I want to do, like installing custom firmware and shit)
For hosting I just spin up a docker container for literally everything, more finicky things run in a dedicated VM.
>messaging
I selfhost my matrix homeserver, so I can just federate and join other servers
>email
I don't really host this (yet)
>file sharing, pastebin
Kinda tricky and I'm not sure, I host a FileBrowser instance and it's opened to the internet through NPM (i do have a domain) and it has a single user into which my friends can log in and download things, and I haven't tried pastebin yet

It kinda snowballed and now I host a shitton of things including zigbee2mqtt, game servers, a torrent scraper for stremio which I shared to my friends so they can watch stuff, etc. I also run stuff that lets my phone sync photos to the NAS and stuff like that.
Just got a GPU for it too so I can run local AI and tinker with that too.

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Anyone switch from opnsense to something unifi? I get that I'm losing powerful features and flexibility but man I want something that just works now. Looking at the ucg-fiber.

-Tired IT Guy

>>109234639
Still have a full health array with a spare ready from before the bubble

>>109235401
If you pay me 100$/month, I'll manage your opnsense for you.
So you get to keep the features and get the greedy vendor lock-in from unify on top

>>109235419
ditto except my cold spare got used the other day and now I'm freeballing praying that another resilver is not on the cards for a while.

>>109235465
It's more so I'd really like something bulletproof I can place above the opnsense where I can choose to fuck up my homelab opnsense shit without family repercussions

>>109235606
Have you considered just running a seconf opnsense?
Maybe virtualized if it's not on edge

>>109234984
>simple services
>email
don't bother, this is probably one of the most high maintenance low reward things that you can self host.
even if you get it working, you'll end up with a server that 95% of the time won't even be able to reliably deliver to anyone. it will also be hammered, hard.
fun project sure, but not as an alternative to normal mail provider.
>anything accessible from the outside
this automatically requires you to take at least some security into consideration.
>anything accessible from the outside, where people can upload shit to your machine
depending on who you will give access to, and how much you trust them.
>anything accessible from the outside, where people can upload shit to your machine anonymously
don't, unless you want bored people to upload porn there and hope you won't end up with one starring kids.

i'd say if you haven't done it before, don't expose anything to the internet - start with something simple that you can use locally/through VPN or something like tailscale - and something that you will actually use and it won't be just idling 100% of the time.

>>109235636
I have considered that but I've already given into part of the ubiquiti system (cameras). I have a sophos 115 running opnsense currently. What I might do is virtualize opnsense on my server (10th gen i7 mini PC) and sell the physical router. That way I at least get some money back from doing this.

>>109226525
last time i updated my rocky 9 vps my vps provider shat itself during installation phase
when they fixed it, the vps booted just fine

>>109226525
John Cron does that for me daily

>>109234639
I bought 44 TB a month or two back. Should hopefully be fine for a bit.

>>109216556
is ZFS for single disks pointless?

>>109236544
i'd still run it. check summing and copy on write is a nice to have on a server. i don't like btrfs on servers. you can also set copies=2 on the zfs pool/ dataset which prevents bit rot.

>>109235938
Can I have the sophos, preferably for free?

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bought a Used SAS HDD for pretty cheap, and I get this in the smart report "Elements in grown defect list: 109".

Is this basically saying it had 109 reallocated sectors?

The Ebay listing did not state this

>>109237877
Depends on who you ask.
Some treat it as a pre-fail indicator, others just trust the drives to manage themselves.
In my opinion as long as it doesn't grow it's not a problem to me. SAS drives don't get hung up on bad sectors compared to sata and as far as the user is concerned, you are not supposed to care until the drive is incapable of correcting itself.

You might be able to get your money back or a return depending on the ebay listing wording. If they say "good health" then they technically weren't lying. If they say "no bad sectors" you might have a case.

>>109238038
the ebay seller didn't mention in their description.

But their pictures shows smart values healthy and values being 0. Though they was seling multiple drives.

I've initiated a return request

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>>109237877
I believe it is reallocated sectors, but usually when it grows into 4 digits is when I'd prepare to replace mine
at 5 digits, they seem to accelerate

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Why do these niggers at ubiquiti make the almost perfect router but then not put a 10gb lan port in it, forcing me to buy some chinkshit transceiver on amazon?

>>109237337
Nyo, I need to fund future purchases. They're actually really cheap on eBay now, around $50-60 for an XG 115 rev 3. Nice little machines. I paid $100 3 years ago

>>109239152
Hey literally just bought one today after posting about it earlier. You can rearrange the ports however you want. You can use the 10 gbe as LAN

I was getting desperate for storage but this morning I found a fresh 8TB lying around that I'd bought years ago
No you can't have it

>>109239460
Same actually. Except I can't use it because it's my spare in case my raid ever fails

Today I investigated my hot water cylinder, to see if I could couple the heat from my CPU into the cylinder and save on server costs. Instead I found mouldy gib-board and a puddle of water. Such is life with chlorinated water.

>>109236544
compared to what?

>>109239742
>save on server costs
…how?

>>109240271
waste heat extraction

>>109235045
>DDR5
personally i cant be bothered with homosexual endeavours like memory training and snowflake sockets, i got dozens of things running on ddr4 and i can swap the ram between all of them just fine. perhaps around 2032 or so.

>>109240281
How much heat is your server even outputting at an average? 100 watts? 200 watts?

Im a poor thirdie, im using my old hp 15 series laptop, afaik there is no WOL on it. I wont be able to physically access it. Not to mention power cuts, the laptop has a battery and it will sustain for like a hour or two. Idk how to build around this limitation. I could set a hard limit for the device to sleep but how to wake it up?

>>109239405
I think anon got filtered by the SFP+ modules

>>109240296
forgot to add nta

>>109240400
IP KVM.

>>109240415
How many people here even have SFP+ devices?

>>109240448
I've been using SFP+ for my 10G networking for over a decade now.
Way more accessible and cheaper than RJ45

just finished my temperature setup. completely automated fan + ac control with promicro, based on average hard drive temps.
spend half a day wondering why the ir transmitter didn't work...it only works like 0.5m from the ac.

what is the recommended vpn setup for mini home servers?

>>109241068
wireguard
openvpn if you can't figure out wireguard

do you use a real TLD? Right now I am using a DDNS service but just like for a real TLD, if shared it would end up exposing my public ip. is a cheap vps as reverse proxy the way to go?

>>109241424
>if shared it would end up exposing my public ip
If it is public, it is already exposed

>>109241441
I am self hosting from my house. most of the risks are mitigated by port forwarding only my wg entrypoint but still the domain name exposes my house ip. this might not be a problem if you selfhost from a vps but that might become an issue for me in the future. reason why I am asking what the best approach is

>>109241464
If your IP is public, it is already exposed, even without DNS pointing to it.
Residential IP ranges get mass scanned just as everything else.

>>109241464
I'm oldschool. I don't use vpn and all services have open exposed ports. Out of "measures" I use it's just a tad more complicated passwords and non standard ports because otherwise logs got filled with trash. Never got hacked.

>>109241068
I'd put Wireguard on my router. Especially if the "mini" server is a low-power one like a Pi. Don't need to waste the little resources you have on the networking.

>>109241424
>do you use a real TLD?
Yeah, I use my local cTLD. Upside is that my server has a five-character name and the name was still available here. Downside is that our cTLD is kinda expensive at like 25€/year. Something like a .work or .day would probably be cheaper.

It's just so nice to be able to use Let's Encrypt with DNS validation to get a real cert that works with everything.

>>109241507
>I'm oldschool.
Fuck yeah, Telnet!