The difference between an IT person and a tech enthusiast

But they realised that all these massively expensive office buildings are mostly empty now.

It’s probably both

If you buy three of them you can set up a Ceph cluster I suppose ahah. That would solve part of your issue of having storage and compute on the same node.

If you don’t need enterprise level hardware and support, I can suggest MinisForum. They released the MS01 fairly recently and I believe it fits your specs.

https://store.minisforum.com/products/minisforum-ms-01

That’s the problem, if anyone somehow gets your root CA key, your encryption is pretty much gone and they can sign whatever they want with your CA.
It’s a lot of work to make sure it’s safe in a home setup.

I’m talking about home hosting and private keys. Not businesses with people whose full time job is to make sure everything runs fine.
I’m a nobody and I regularly have people/bots testing my router. I’m not monitoring my whole setup yet and if someone gets in I would probably not notice until it’s too late.
So hosting my own CA is a hassle and a security risk I’m not willing to put work into.

The domain certificate is public and its key is private? That’s basically it, if anyone gets access to your key, they can sign with your name and generate certificates without your knowledge. That’s my opinion and the main reason why I wouldn’t have a self hosted CA, maybe I’m wrong or misled, but it’s a lot of work to ensure everything is safe, only for a self hosted setup.

For self hosting at least, having your own CA is a pain in the ass to make sure everything is safe and that nobody except you has access to your CA root key.
I’m not saying it’s not doable, but it’s definitely a lot of work and potentially a big security risk if you’re not 100% certain of what you’re doing.

That sounds like a bad idea, you would need your CA and your root certs to be completely air gapped for it to be even remotely safe.

I mean, Microsoft is evil. We’re way past that point with them.

When you ask why, some people answer why not

Well it’s a good step in the right direction, not a massive difference but still

Maybe it’s badly implemented where I work, but I feel it’s clunky and messy

Blip blop beep. I SWEAR I AM A HUMAN BEING MADE OF HUMAN FLESH.

ChatGPT is not conscious, it’s just a probability language model. What it says makes no sense to it and it has no sense of anything. That might change in the future but currently it’s not.

Shhh we don’t talk about these !

There are two types of backdoors, the ones that were fixed and the ones we don’t know about.

It’s definitely freakish luck but at least it got found out. A closed source software would have gone through unnoticed.

If anything it highlights how great open source actually is when it comes to security. People saw it and immediately flagged it.