Last few years we have been booking vacations when we have big race events, to put 1 and 1 together and save money. So 1 year in advance (that's when ironmans registrations opens up).
Back when we where only traveling, usually from Feb/march for august. Go get best deals and low tickets.
I I agree with everybody else saying that the email server should not be self-hosted. But I have a specific exception to this rule, which I was keen to try, but I never did this or take this with a pinch of salt.
I do self-host on my services, but at the moment I keep myself hosted email on a public server, not on my home server.
Since I am using a tunnel to access my services from outside, my home server is actually using my public server ip. moving my email self-hosting to my home server would not actually change the front facing IP address of that email server, and no harm would be done to my mail server.
But is it really worth it? Probably not. Since I would still need some kind of backup email server out on the internet for the rare situations where my home server is cut from the internet due to power outage or ISP being down.
You want full reliability for your email server. So your home connection without UPS or backup connection isn't going to cut the cheese fully.
So, I would suggest you don't self-host your email on your home server. You can still self-host your email, but on a public server. Be aware, though, that is a difficult task which will require lots of effort and many months to get it done right and accepted everywhere.
Love Gentoo. Being using it for 20+ years and never looked back.
Using also CentOS for work, and would switch to Gentoo if I could.
Really, gentoo for everything (from laptop to headless server), but not for where a rolling release distro is not suitable (configuration control and such needs).
Been on USB enclosures using Linux software raid for 20 years and never lost a bit so far.
Didn't go cheap with USB jbod, and i have no idea if zfs is more sensitive to USB... But I don't use zfs either so don't know.
But again I have been using two jbods over USB:
All three raid are managed by Linux software raid stack.
The original one I think I started in the 2000's, then upgraded disks many times and slowly moving to ssds to lower heat production and power usage.
Keep them COOL that's important.
Rent a cheap vps and do something like I did with ssh tunneling, or wireguard VPN, between home and the vps:
https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=router:ssh_tunnel
(Sorry I keep posting links to my wiki but the whole point was writing once)
Definitely podman + podman compose.
Its fully open source (docker isn't) and its secure by design (security has been added to docker as an after fought).
Also podman is rootless by design, docker takes a bit of effort to run root less.
Docker (better use Podman!) Is, I am afraid, hard to avoid nowadays. I fully agree with you that bare-metal deployment should always be an option.
Its one of my biggest issues with immich/photoprism/librephotos but there is no way around that.
Immich is the only container I have on my system... A necessary evil (joking).
I know containers now, but still don't like them too much. I am old I am afraid.
But you shouldn't be FORCED to use containers, that's my point.
Nah, moving away from NextCloud, it worked fine, but again overkill only for this
Require a subdinain should not be mandatory in 2024.
Sub paths should be such a basic feature that's ridiculous devs don't even take that into consideration.
Why? Because a software requiring absolute paths is as old and obsolete as an msdos program, and the only real reason it happens today is... Bad design choices or limited frameworks.
You are welcone in any case. Its a rewarding and also tough experience.
I got eweka deal al 3.99eur. 12+3 months.
They actually do, i am down the same path recently and installing authelia was the best choice I made. Still working on it.
But most stvies support either basic auth, headers auth, oidc or similar approaches. Very few don't.