Using ProxMox has been extremely useful for me. It has allowed me to experiment with a lot more things than I ever did before—it is very easy to spin up a new VM to test things out.

I would recommend it to anyone running a home server.

Watchtower may be what you’re looking for.

My ex wife turned out to be a Lenovo. She and her new girlfriend seem very happy. /s

My wife says she wishes she could make me scream like Linux does. I told her she would if I could put it in her bash.

She leaves me alone when I’m on the computer now. It’s quiet in here.

Self hosting is actually crazy cheap compared to any kind of corporate solution. Anybody paying for SquareSpace, for instance, could cut their cost by a factor of 20 or more with a FOSS alternative like Ghost Blog.

I know my setup is over engineered a little so I pay a bit more, but my expenses are still under $100 per year for subscription services that support the self hosting.

$2.50 per month for a VPN.

$40 per year for two VPS’s (this is what I know I overpay for since I didn’t really know how much I needed when I set it up, but the time to change it is worth more to me than the extra $10 per year).

$17ish per year for a domain name.

Plex lifetime pass (around $100 one time).

And of course, ten million dollars in man hours spent learning how to use Linux.

I was the original appreciator! Gluetun is life! Gluetun is truth! Gluetun is the way!

I’m so glad this post helped somebody!

Indeed! There are many simple and quality ways to set it up, and users can pick anything they prefer. FOSS is dope like that.

I think the questions are more prominent because a wider audience of people are becoming more privacy conscious.

In my case, I haven’t had the advantage of going to school for any of this, so I have to pick up knowledge where I can. If there is a reliable tool available to accomplish my task, I’m more likely to use it than to pursue a more manual solution because even simple computing questions can be rabbit holes that result in hours of reading and learning.

The reason that I made this post is because your options are always limited by your awareness of available solutions, and I presumed there might be someone else out there who has struggled getting a VPN reliably bound to a service.

My mind was really blown when I saw how easy it was to set up. I can’t endorse it enough—it is one of the easiest containers I’ve worked with, and it is doing a relatively complex job flawlessly.

That’s only a brief list too. We probably don’t know the full extent of his crimes, and more keeps getting revealed. 10 minutes of googling the news about him is going to blow your mind.

He systematically used the power and influence of the presidency to project falsehoods, encourage division and violence, and potentially feed classified information illegally to foreign governments for his own personal gain.

He is currently on trial for bribing people to stay silent about his affairs during the 2016 election. He was previously found to have illegally taken classified documents back to his home in Florida and kept them after he was president, potentially to sell information. His son in law was given a career in the White House with no prior experience, and there is a huge paper trail to suggest that he got paid 2 billion by foreign governments for representing their interests during that time.

He’s like a corruption buffet, and he has openly stated he will retaliate against everyone he considers an enemy if he wins again.

I was a team lead. Painstakingly created documentation for everything.

New boss in town. Says destroy it all and stop making more.

Stopped being team lead. That shit was demoralizing. Years of work down the drain for no reason.

People who enforce cultures of tribal knowledge are either idiotic or covering for their own incompetence.

Nginx. I pronounced it N-Jinx.

I never in a million years would have guessed it was “Engine X”.

Brazil is trialing Linux right now too.

https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/

They’ve gone up a little, but they’re starting at $11 per year.

Are you using Nginx to make your app available on the web? If you are on a home internet connection, how confident are you that your ISP has given you a static IP?

Running Nginx and Tailscale to route traffic through a VPS with a static IP has been way more reliable for me than any attempt at static IP hosting from a home connection in the past. At $5-$15 per year, a VPS is cheaper than the hassle of troubleshooting with an ISP at home.

Since BOINC is on your list, I want to ask—is there a version of it that will display the cool screensavers via web UI? I would run BOINC 24/7 if I could show off those cool data processing screens, but there is no use for a screensaver on my server.

Maybe I’m just dense, but how is that done? I don’t see anything in tautulli settings, and I don’t see any plugin scripts for it.

Stick with it! I was intimidated by Linux at first and barely learned anything the first year because I was afraid to tinker.

Learn how to make a backup and do a restore (timeshift is a good option), and then tinker with abandon. The terminal is your friend. Experience is the best teacher.

I’m excited for you. I wish I could learn it all again to experience the excitement of writing my first script or figuring out docker again. It’s going to be an awesome adventure for you. 🙂