TFO Winder

I have a VPS hosted on Digital ocean with Nginx running as proxy, I use openvpn to connect to the VPS and access all my services over the VPS ip address.

I own a domain and forward all the requests from my domain to the Home server IP from my VPS, very useful because I can use different subdomains for different services all on port 80 or 443 even though the service is running on random port.

Need to give synthing a try

I have heard people have successfully utilised Mailcow without any issues for many years.

Personally gave it a try once but setting up ports, firewalls, virus scans, anti spams, dns felt too much effort for what I was going to use it for

The backups with time shift are incremental, hence most of the time the backup is taken within seconds and it only stores changes over time, something similar to git.

I used to do it exactly for that uses case, the backup was quick because there generally are not much changes outside the home directory.

I used to have Daily backups and monthly backup like 20 different dates stored in a relatively small space.

Like if my system is 30 gb then a 50 gb backup partition would store months of daily backups.

Not answering your question but I had installed btrfs on my fedora install, thought I would use it for backups and system restores using snapshots.

But I felt there was always a performance tradeoff when doing a lot of writes like npm install and stuff.

Eventually replaced btrfs with ext4 and backup solution like timeshift.

I would say if you want system recovery then tools like timeshift make it really really simple and straightforward taking backups and restoring them.

Sometimes you just don’t need a Swiss army knife to do most basic stuff.

Which linux phone is practical?

Almost all of them lack good hardware and feel overpriced.

Remember the slow internet had to wait overnight for 40 megabyte game and finally finding out it didn’t work.