Get a .ca domain (assuming you’re Canadian), it’s the same price as a .com and the prices don’t change much since they’re controlled majorly by the govt.

Check out orangewebsite, they are from Iceland and are pretty private. Ive been using them for around 4 years and have had no issues!

p.s. I only use their domain registration service and not the hosting, so I cannot comment on that.

I would rather just making a wireguard vpn and having control of my data, but privacy might not be his concern.

+1 for Deemix. ARLs are easy to find and the metadata is flawless for the 1-200 or so songs I have.

https://esc.sh/projects/devops-from-scratch/ is a good resource. Most questions you have (that are more specific) are easily searchable on the internet.

ways to safely connect to home servers over the internet while away

A couple methods include :

• Installing Wireguard on the host machine
• Reverse-proxying with a VPS
• Cloudflare zero-trust tunnel

when it may be better to spin up services on a VPS instead

Most services you probably won’t need a VPS to do, but off the top of my head a couple services which would be better hosted (not saying self-hosting them on your own hardware is bad) would be services which proxy a service. Example SearxNG, Invidious, Proxitok, etc. This is so that traffic can be shared among multiple users, and not linked back to your home IP.

I would recommend Navidrome + a subsonic player, but it is alot more effort.

!navidrome@discuss.tchncs.de

Really like homepage. Simple to install, easy to modify and “beautify”; though it’s barely used in my household since my family only cares about Jellyfish and nothing else…

To connect via a domain name I would recommend using a VPS as a reverse proxy to your server. This is easily done by initiating a Wireguard connection to the VPS, then connecting to your home server via the domain which points to the VPS’s ip. Quick google search got me this.

And for wolfgang’s blog, all he’s doing is setting up NPM then pointing Nextcloud’s ip+port to his domain name (which is a DuckDNS). For truenas scale I found this, which basically says that Traefik is a better reverse proxy for scale.

Note: I have not used TrueNAS Scale at all, so take my info with a grain of salt. I personally feel as if using Proxmox and then making 1x TrueNAS Core and 1x Linux containers would be easier, but I digress. Let me know if you have questions.

No, you’re right, it does not sync. Usually I do this on longer durations without internet, else I just use a webapp (on mobile) or the website on PC.

I honestly prefer Kavita even though I do not download comics or manga. Their reader is so nice, specially with the themes. 0 issues on my end except for indexing, which the dev promptly fixed after I reported the issue.

I use Moon+ Reader pro on my android, and on my iOS I simply make a “webapp” of the website.

Good news, there are agencies which looks for these vulnerabilities and report the issues to manufacturers! But, usually the person who makes the botnet patches the vuln. after they infect the device so no one else can take control of it. So, unless the owner of the device apart of the botnet updates software after a fix is implemented and factory resets, nothing can be done to ‘remove’ the device from the botnet.

I would recommend proton, airvpn or cryptostorm if you need port-forwarding. PureVPN has a history of logging, which is a big no-no for your privacy.

I would recommend hosting a wireguard server yourself instead of using tailscale or zerotier (both go through their own servers with your data, instead of your data remaining within your reach). Wireguard is really easy to deploy using docker using the wg-easy image.

I used to use it, good service, no complaints apart from their 99% downtime on their SOCKS5 proxies, but I left because I do not like the admins. They act like children, even in support tickets.

just an fyi, not shitting on their products (apart from socks5)

I would recommend trying different skins for Kodi, was a game changer for me.

I used to use Kavita for ebooks and it was a pain to organize them. I usually just dump a bunch of .epubs into books directory, but it only recognizes books INSIDE of a folder. So, I just made a script to create a folder using the exact name and put the epub in it.

Had this happen to me and I lost all my servers data, but regardless of a sever it keeps a local file which I imported to my new homelab

Means “on god” basically promising / swearing to god that something occured, etc. My son uses it so much to the point I don’t think he believes in god, and just says it to say it.

Wow, surprising really, might just have to try it and set it up tomorrow! Thank you, hope it works out for me lol.