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

For a cloud service, as such, I’d go for Nextcloud - though it is getting to be a huge behemoth again. Others exist though, and self host your nextcloud is even better!

It sure is… stops the less technical, of course

I run an smtp relay exactly for that kind of stuff with emails. Clients still like wordpress and this is easy to use, many other will accept an smtp relay/service like say gmail (the first one I could think of)

FREE THE WAFFLES!

Personally I would look at using a tunnel, something like Cloudflare tunnels (easy to setup, sorts dns out) but many here dislike Cloudflare for a lot of reasons. However the free plan allows you to get started, easily, and then once you are started and serving your blog you can look into other solutions, or failing that stay on Cloudflare. Other tunnels exist but if you have a domain, using cloudflare is the easiest imho to get started

Not necessarily, Cloudflare tunnels, headscale/tailscale will sort that issue out amongst several other ways

The controller is the built in Pi controller in the SoC - the hat just sorts out the logic to route the 5 sata ports

more like 99%

It isn’t that limited, but for zfs arm seems to perform much worse. Plus you often don’t get a full idea of true system load. the biggest limitation is the io, it is very bad for 5 drives in zfs raidz1. the data is distributed across all 5 drives with parity as well. the pi can only do around 500 meg transfers for an nvme drive whilst many other platforms will see 3000 meg, that is why it suffers so much in this case as that 500 meg is across 5 drives. tops you’d get is 10 meg transfer I reckon and that is roughly what you are seeing. you’d be better off with 3 larger drives in raidz1

this is the limits of a slow interface and 5 drives. See my other reply to enable faster pci speeds. because of how zfs works 5 drives is slower than 3, takes more cache and write speeds especially will be slower, quite a lot slower. with 5 drives and 16gb you can easily have a zfs cache of 12 gigs to help it along, i guess this is why you are getting large gaps between writes. as someone else said a pi doesn’t do well in this case but I reckon you can improve it. however as also said it is never going to be a speedy solution. secure and safe for data but not fast

A Pi with a hat and 5 sata drives isn’t ever going to perform very well with zfs in raid z1. cpu limited, io limited possibly even ram limited quite quickly. I love zfs but it a bit of a performance hog, though pretty bulletproof if setup correctly! the hat will be through a pci x1 interface, so at least set the pci to gen3 speeds. Jeff tells you about it here

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/forcing-pci-express-gen-30-speeds-on-pi-5

Yup - I like the fediverse too, but I have plenty of clients who don’t. Plenty tried Bluesky, most have left. They all seem to be going towards (shudder) threads now

I get workarounds, but for many they’ll just leave…

become a sole trader with no assets, no expenses but still a business. Sorted!

There might be but you ruined my quip!

Govt easily has enough majority to ignore this, I said this when everyone was going it is time for Labour to have a go at the GE. Same govt is making it OK for 16 and 17yr old to vote but they have to be age checked on the tinternet…