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Yeah the line can get pretty ambiguous. In general I try to use the device with the least complexity that still gets the job done

A router usually can do all that but it also does a whole lot more, like NAT, DHCP, etc. Sometimes you need a just a switch that understands VLANs and link aggregation

Firefox might be able to survive on donations, if Mozilla’s CEO stopped giving herself raises

An S3 bucket won’t have a hard cap. You pay a small amount monthly based on how much storage you use. Here’s a good guide I found: https://pawlean.com/2020/07/15/how-i-use-aws-s3-to-host-images-on-my-blog/

I don’t have a specific router I can recommend, but tp-link is usually affordable and a brand I trust

Sounds like hairpin NAT. Don’t worry, the traffic never leaves your network

You should look into Vyos for your router, I’m currently running it in proxmox as my home router

I don’t host anything public, but I’ve got two Proxmox nodes hosting various local services in virtual machines . Currently I have

• My gaming rig, running windows with a GPU passed through. With this I stream games to my laptop, steam deck, tv, etc
• My router, running Vyos with a dual port nic passed through. The configuration is all done through ansible
• TrueNAS for general network storage
• a handful of vms created on the fly for specific projects