But how do you get the audiobooks if you don’t use Readarr?

Pufferpanel is an alternative to Pterodactyl. So it Pelican Panel. I’d use Pufferpanel for easier setup maintenance.

If you’re a beginner use Pufferpanel. Pterodactyl is a nightmare to setup and maintain.

There is no competition to Minecraft.

Vodafone gave me an IPv4 in Germany no problem. I asked and they gave it to me. They said it’s not static, but it hasn’t changed for me in years.

I refused to do any documentation for a long time because it made me feel stupid for not memorizing it. I learned it the hard way… Now I document everything possible with Git and Readmes.

I do backup like 1TB off-site. But it would still be a major blow if I lost the rest of it. I just try to live with that risk I’m fully aware exists.

I do weekly ZFS snapshots though and I’m very diligent on my smart tests and scrubs. I also have a UPS and a lot of power surge protection. And ECC Ram. It’s as safe as it gets. But having a backup would definitely be better, you’re right. I just can’t afford it for this much storage.

I don’t have Avengers 4K. It’s all just Linux ISOs.

In theory. But I already spent my pension for those 64TB drives (raidz2) xD. Getting off-site backup for all of that feels like such a waste of money (until you regret it). I know it isn’t a backup, but I’m praying the Raidz2 will be enough protection.

I’m just skipping that. How am I going to backup 48TB on an off-site backup?!

There will always be flaws

You said it.

I have it behind a proxy and IPS. I force my users to have strong passwords. I don’t see why this would be a problem.

Are you an LLM?

That would take 22 hours under ideal conditions on a 1gbit connection. If you copy files and not block data it’ll probably take 24h or more. Not fun.

I’m also trying to figure out a setup using Docker. What’s the recommended way of connecting the container to a VPN? Ideally I want to bind the qbittorrent container to a VPN while the rest of the machine is not connected to the VPN.

The easiest way to get started is using Docker. You can self-host most software using Docker straight from their Github with one command or copy-paste config.

Do NOT expose (Port forward/NAT) your services to the internet if you don’t know what you’re doing. Use it locally using IP:port. If you want to use your services remotely, use a VPN tunnel like Wireguard (Available on Android and iOS too). Modern routers already support it out of the box. Tailscale is also an option.

Later down the road when you start exposing services, I can recommend NPM as your proxy for easy host and certificate management. Expose as little as possible! For added security when exposing applications to the internet, expose your port using a VPS or Cloudflare and tunnel to your home using Tailscale or Wireguard.

To not get overwhelmed you should start small and improve as you go. You don’t need to start with a datacenter in your garage right away. The most important thing is that you have fun along the way :)

Great projects to get started:

• Nextcloud
• Immich
• PaperlessNGX
• StirlingPDF
• Pastes
• KirchenOwl

It’s not FOSS but Symfonium is by far the best music player for your Android. It has support for every self-hosted source concivable. I used to run Navidrome and I’m not using Jellyfin in the backend.

It’s bad. But it’s the best we’ve got.

Featureset looks nice but the UI looks horrendous and dated.