How do you control it? Any fancy integration or just good old mouse?
Illecors
I'm a syaadmin now, but self hosting nextcloud is what got me my first IT job. I now host a bunch of stuff (even email!), lemmy included.
how did you decide that you would like to self-host? I wanted my friends to play a cs1.6 map I had created.
dire problems, including those that accumulate over time
That's not a thing. You create problems over time by experimening in what is, effectively, production load. If all you ever did was install any distro and kept it up to date - not much can break. Granted - shit happens, but it's incredibly rare.
As an example - I've set up my mail server in May 2019. Chose archlinux, because I never wanted to go through a big upgrade. The only exta software installed there is mail-server related. Direct from the repos. I've become confident enough that now there's a nightly cronjob to update the system with a hook to reboot if kernel or init gets updated.
In all those 5 a bit years I've had one issue where I hqd to revert a kernel update.
Another example is tang on an ubuntu server. This was at a previous workplace, but essentially it's a piece of software from the repos. Originally installed on 16.04, has gone without reprovisioning all the way to 22.04. I've now left the company, but I hear it's still running.
Upgrading an ubuntu desktop fleet with a myriad of custom software, on the other hand... let's just not talk about it.
I'm not the best person to query about backups, but in your situation I would do the following, assuming both server and desktop run on BTRFS:
Have a script on the desktop
that starts btrfs-receive
and then notifies the server
that it should start btrfs-send
.
You can also do rsync if BTRFS is not a thing you use, but It would either be expensive storage wise, or you would only ever have 1 backup - latest
.
Personal desktop, a couple laptops, work desktop, work laptop, a few servers and a firewall.
I use 9 systems currently:
- 5 Gentoo
- 2 Arch
- 1 FreeBSD (OpnSense)
- 1 w11
And the w11 is a work laptop that is getting Gentoo whenever I get a minute, leaving w11 on as small a partition as I can get away with for a once a month check in to intune.
I've found this.
https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/
It does seem suspicious, though.
founded by industry experts
RackNerd provides up to 100 free IPv6 addresses upon request.
Pick one.
Fair enough. What stuff do you run on your regular week?
I've not had anything like that since... forever. But then I'm not a kde nor fedora user. Naturally raises the question - have you considered switching from kde, fedora or both?
Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can't host a public site with that.
Of course you can! Nginx and wireguard on a VPS and actual services wherever you want.
A bit of a PSA for LG owners running webOS:
https://www.webosbrew.org/
I rooted my tv and now have adless youtube, but apparently root is not a prerequisite - there also installation using dev mode. Admitedly, haven't tried it and it's probably less convenient to get it set up, but then it should be a one time thing.