Machine wise anything will work. Give yourself a chassis with room to add more disks down the road or just build your storage setup in a way that gives you what flexibility you need (though that tends to come with sacrifices).
I use Nextcloud for general file syncing between devices as occaisonal small file sharing.
Mulvad is great but if you need port forwarding you’ll have to look elsewhere as they no longer provide that feature.
I use keepass2android and “sync” via its native WebDAV support with my nextcloud instance as the source. Been working great forever.
Ah, well, then perhaps I will monitor it.
For internal use I just monitor everything with zabbix. What Ive been wanting is (as I said) a public “status screen” that my few users can hit just to verify if things are in fact down or if it’s just them.
Ok, you might have finally gotten me to consider a “dashboard”. I’ve been wanting a simple public facing service status page and this sounds like a nice solution.
Haha, I’ve never had to deal with something quite that high pressure but I’ve definitely been a little looser than standard during at least a couple emergencies.
Kernel upgrade WHILE you’re out for beers!
Someone just posted their own short reviews of a slew of wiki options in this community so maybe go take a peek at that.
Personally I’m finding I like Otterwiki quite a lot though I’ve not yet dug deep into it.
As someone with no such mental barriers you’ll have to take take my words with a grain if salt. I’m certainly not ever looking to make purchase something that is crap/doesn’t work/is useless. I do as much research as i can on the item, think about how I expect to use the item, and try to think about what may work and not work about the time.
If I can’t come up with a strong objective reason to not get it then I buy it. Generally you can return most things so if I’m particularly hesitant about something due to too many unknowns I’ll just make sure I can return it. Sometimes there may be a few but I consider that the price of the lesson.
There is also nothing wrong with asking the opinions of others if you know nothing about it and you know someone who might. People ask me about computer and electronics purchases because I have a lot if experience and can typically advise them of things they didn’t consider.
What I don’t do is ask people who know little to nothing about whatever the item is and then base my own opinion entirely on their uneducated one.
At the end of the day though you really just have to allow yourself to make mistakes. There’s nothing wrong with that and is often the one if the best ways to learn something.
I use portainer extensively and am quite fond of it. I normally live on the CLI so picking a GUI tool over cli management is unusual for me but I’ve found portainer largely just makes typical management easier and doesn’t get in my way at all.
For your other questions I have no answers. I self host everything so to me “what is worth running” is not a question that makes sense. I run what I need and my needs therefore define what I run.
I stick to IRC over matrix.
500Mbps isn’t a measurement of electrical consumption
To each their own but I think I prefer to stick to Nextcloud and just continue to keep things organized the old fashioned way for the most part.
Though for documents those all get fed to paperless-ngx
Don’t sleep on the Teamspeak 6 beta. It is very close to being a total discord replacement and in its current form is still extremely usable.
Check out the Teamspeak 6 beta. I’ve checked out probably all the most popular discord alternatives at this point (as I refuse to use it and am always looking for something to convince others to get off of it) and the TS6 beta is almost right there as far as core features and experience goes.
That sounds fine. I would only say don’t use Syncthing to actually make your backups. My preference and recommendation is restic, possibly combined with the helper utility autorestic.
Lidarr isn’t really meant for that so you’re always going to fighting things I unfortunately
NPM likes to eat the let encrypt requests which is what I’m assuming is breaking the cert gen inside the container. I believe you can work around this, but honestly I’d recommend just moving to a more advanced but more flexibile proxy solution.
Personally I recommend Traefik. There isn’t a friendly gui to help you but once you wrap your head around it things just work. It also allows for defining proxy parameters right in your compose file via labels so it takes out the need to log into NPM and manage proxy entries there. Just deploy you’re compose fils and you’re off.
As far as making what you’ve got just work, you can either try to get NPM to stop intercepting the LE cert requests or hack up the signal-tls-relay container and jam the NPM certs into it. I wouldn’t recommend either of these options though. I’ve been in a similar scenario and it’s this among other reasons why I moved off NPM. I started with NPM because I thought it would be simple and easy and it is, right up until you want to do a thing even slightly outside of its fairly limited box.
And as someone who uses Linux for literally everything I know better than to preach as if Linux is a full replacement for Windows. It’s not and there are absolutely reasons to still use windows. OP isn’t asking about the OS and given the nature of the question probably isn’t ready for such a switch in the first place.
Can you build it yourself for cheaper?
Also, IMO 16GB is bare minimum in 2026 if you are using Windows. I’d really go to 32GB.
Check out the Teamspeak6 beta. I don’t know about offline messages but it addresses all your other complaints. I moved to it from Mumble somewhat recently and have been very happy with it.