Run Home Assistant, add the integration, create a dashboard for your phone/tablet, never use the app again.

I think we are past the tipping point now, it’s downhill from here and what we do to reduce carbon emissions will only determine how fast we go down that hill.

I’m pretty sure this was in the book of revelations.

They’re getting the payday they promised themselves and they are doing it now because the share price will probably never be this high again.

If Spez was paid $93 million last year and all but $600k of it were shares, you can bet he still has plenty left.

Op was so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

I Imagine they’ll use whatever connections are provided to them by their AI overlords.

The VPn may be necessary if their IP address ranges are being blocked, or it could be to get around an API limit?

I wouldn’t be surprised if they are doing it to block AI from hoovering up all of their data.

On your firewall block all IP addresses except Cloudlflare’s IP ranges

Configure Cloudflare’s firewall to block any connections from outside your home country.

What are the storage implications of setting up your own instance? Are you syncing the contents of every sub or just the ones you and your friends subscribe to? I like the idea of doing it but will it be TB’s of content in a few months?

This is such an open ended question that nobody can give you an accurate answer as there are so many factors that need to be considered.

How big is the site? How much data is being stored? What is the DB backend? How does it handle failover between DB servers in the event the primary goes down? Is it being hosted in a cloud service, your own DC or a cupboard? Does the location it is being hosted already have redundant power and internet connectivity? Are they diverse, so if one provider fails the other one will remain online? You’d need to maintain separate sites in case one location goes down due to a major event like an earthquake, so you need to replicate data in real-time to your DR location.

There are so many factors to consider and I haven’t named them all. Regardless of what your answer is, it would be very expensive to maintain any server at 6 9’s level of availability. For a marketplace website with only 1000 visitors a day there is no need for that level of availability because there would be times in the day that nobody would be on it. Only a marketplace the size of Amazon would consider that level of availability.