Looks interesting. Marked it for exploration. Too many cool projects to explore and not enough time!

Which is why I said that I’m a purist. But whatever works, they’re both worth exploring. I got dug-in on my solution a decade ago and haven’t really had a reason to change once I learned it.

Pfsense. I’m a purist.

Also, we’re in beta

That means there might be a few hiccups along the way. If you run across any problems you can always let us know, and we’ll do our best to fix them.

I would have thought this is a disqualifier in terms of quality of the service, but if that’s acceptable to you then I’m glad you got something that works.

Agreed, and well-articulated. I think you (OP) need to ask yourself whether you’re willing to pay the appropriate market rate for the service or not. I don’t know what that is, but I expect it’s higher than you’ve expressed.

Why would I want to interact with people on threads? I’m here for the Lemmy community.

Proxmox is available free. You pay for support and maybe other things with a license, but you can download it and give it a spin at no cost. I just switched to Proxmox around 1m ago when I restarted my homelab project after years on hiatus. I used to use Esxi before Broadcom bought VMware and decided to suck. I like it so far.

It might be overkill for your needs. I’m running it because I want to play with setting up and managing Win Server (I only have experience managing existing servers on Win), so there’s a distinct reason for me to be on Proxmox even though I’m a Mac and Linux person. I agree that it might be overkill for your i5 if you only plan to run one Ubuntu instance on it. However, a lot of homelabbing is about having an environment to try out and learn new skills. If that’s something that’s interesting to you, it might be worthwhile.

Keep in mind that you could also run KVM for virtualization if you find reason for VMs. You’re not limited to Proxmox. And if you see no need for VMs, you already have three devices to do the things you bought them to do.

Try following some of the advice in this thread. Hardware tests if the BIOS supports it. Maybe try underclocking or undervolting the CPU is BIOS supports that. If you can pull a RAM chip and test with just one, then test the chips individually in each slot, that’d be something worth trying. I’m shooting from the hip, but these are things that could help isolate a possible hardware issue.

A directory full of plaintext files. Can cat them from the command line.

I also cannot see replies while signed in. It’s something I’ve accepted as a shortcoming of Lemmy from time to time.

Not a form of communication that resinates with me. Not the target audience.

DNS points to the domain. Then you configure the subdomain on the same IP. Maybe I’m missing something, but this is how I understand subdomains.

RAID. No question. Or two individual drives each alternating full backups, which is what I do.

I just plugged in a new drive to replace an SSD that locked and wouldn’t write new backups. It failed a format attempt. I immediately ordered a replacement. Remember the rule: one is none.

And for fucksake, have an offsite backup.

I was so confused about a package delivery. I opened the thread, saw Self Hosted, and suddenly everything clicked.

Cheers to nice cable management. Don’t look at the mess below my desk.

Someone posted metrics for how many users vote. 131k.

I go there to passively consume short videos of stuff that isn’t here, but fuck if I’m gonna comment or vote. I don’t even sign in.

This is a great metric-explainer. What impressive numbers. Now we really know how successful this migration has been.

I dunno why people dislike your take - I think it’s spot on.

Maybe I don’t know enough, but I think this is FUD.

I complained when the term “crypto” was co-opted. Come die with me on this hill where we care about things.