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Like I said - each to their own. truecharts the apps are pretty much known to be more unstable as well, says that everywhere in the documentation. Truenas if it’s up to date, using their app catalogue with stable selected is pretty rock solid for everyone.

Well erm that I can’t get around… but I guess it depends on what you want to self host. I use truenas as a storage solution, standalone and it works very well for that - I have had it up and running for years and years. It also stores personal files and is not exposed to the internet apart from updates and a few other things. Then I have an old 4-node server from Supermicro which hosts the stuff I need and uses truenas to store the data. Now that is probably overkill but the data is safe and backed up well. Truenas has apps for a lot of things, and other ways to host docker containers if you have the latest scale community edition. So perhaps you could do it that way

Debian supports zfs so why the extra hassle of truenas? Seems to be a lot of extra work to add a vm when you could just use zfs in Debian. Or install something like Minio in Debian and use that to manage the data in s3 style buckets, again no vm needed

Change your surname to a domain that is available…
Of course I am kidding, but this kind of thing happens a lot, and it just ends up costing money to sort out. If you are happy with that then do it - if not then you will have to hope it becomes available on the free market at some time or see if it comes available in domain auctions as said. It really is that hit or miss, unless you are a Jones or Smith in which case there is zero chance

of course, but each to their own and all that. I just feel that parity on data is pretty much a free help to keep data secure. Not a magic bullet but a helping hand. And zfs does it very very well!

Not if you use raidz1, if you use raidz2 then yes. raidz in zfs is pretty decent. I have had a disk fail in raidz1 and replaced it with another and no data was lost after a resilver. Took a few hours but worked really well. Pretty much the whole idea of using zfs is the enhanced security of your data, seems strange to not put that to good use. The chances of BOTH drives failing before you can replace 1 are very very slim. I get that there is no easy way to just migrate to raidz1 but you could if you got 3 drives, make a new raidz1 pool, copy the data across and then add the old 2 drives to to the pool with a new vdev. You need to be able to add 5 drives to the system though. Of course there are many options here, but you already know that

If you add 2 more drives surely it would be better to use raidz1? I mean you’d add capacity AND get parity protection so if any 1 drive failed the data would still be safe. 4x4TB drives with raidz1 would give you around 14.5 TB of storage with added security

Cloudflare tunnels does exactly this…

You’d be better converting to ZFS or something else rather than just RAID (I’m assuming it is hardware raid) but I bet that has been mentioned a lot

I forgot duckdns still exists to be fair

Funkwhale is OK, use it here but served via Yunohost cos I is lazy

Loads of S3 suppliers out there but a lot depends on your region and how much you dislike certain corps. I mean AWS is the daddy of S3 but I doubt you would go down that route unless your are criminally insane like Uncle Fester

Whilst I do like Nextcloud it is getting a super bloated thing these days and performance is struggling as a result. Still the best for me right now, but I might change in the future if they continue to fatten it up for slaughter!

Cloudflare tunnels so yes it does, as long as you do it right.

Using Cloudflare so they aren’t

I run several different ones, Debian is the most, Ubuntu server runs a few and I have a couple of truenas scale instances simply because they have run truenas for years and work well. One is local network only, another is available but is used for storage and storage alone via s3/minio and sftp and duplicati

tailscale will tunnel through and you can set it to pass through https. Lots of different ways to achieve this, as long as you have control over the dns and are able to set https up it will work. This is why for me I still use cloudflare, you can even setup a subdomain through their tunnels and they act as a cdn. For example, I run a linkstack instance, send instance and much more

https://linkstack.relayeasy.com/@3dcadmin

oh yeah - but I don’t recommend anyone really self host an smtp server… many many issues right there especially as most isps block the ports required and the IP addresses are often blocked as well. Just use a service and don’t spam and all should be well (so don’t get sending newsletter emails all the time)

chance you take with pretty much everything you don’t control. I do use as much as I can to protect emails (not that much really)

I get that… fo me though as I have been using Cloudflare for many years I can’t see any reason to change yet. That of course may change