Yup. And the official training books are still a great resource for learning everything from the basics to more advanced stuff.

I bought an updated set a couple of years ago, and they still hold up.

Stupid indeed, but of utmost importance.

I’ve used this a lot in the past at work. I see now that it’s discontinued, but I’m sure they have a new thing in its place. tiny, easy to use, and a huge time saver.

This is just phrenology with extra steps

Is there any info regarding how old this data is?

As long as he doesn’t hijack . I don’t care.

One
Rich
Asshole
Called
Larry
Ellison

Plus, if you end up accidentally locking yourself out of your own system: boot access means root access (Secure your IPMI/iDRAC, folks!)

I’m far from an expert, but I’ve been using Hetzner for close to 20 years at this point. Both their VPSes and the actual rent-a-server.

I skimmed the article and I didn’t notice anything blatantly bad in the approach. So they have my approval.

+1 for rdiff-backup. Been using it for 20 years or so, and I love it.

By living in the middle of fucking nowhere. I haven’t locked my front door in over a year.

Why not go truly selfhosted and build your own? Any PC + JBOD + ZFS, then add whichever services you need. NFS or SMB should get you a long way.

Plenty of guides out there.

I started hosting stuff before containers were common, so I got used to doing it the old fashioned way and making sure everything played nice with each other.

Beyond that, it’s mostly that I’m not very used to containers.

Are you able to ask your ISP customer service to set up port forwarding for you?

At minimal you want HTTP (Port 80) but you probably want HTTPS (443) as well. If you’re hosting DNS as well you will need port 53 too.

Have those ports routed to the “inside” IP of the machine you want to use, and the rest of it is basically just setting up the webserver (and possibly DNS) to serve your domain.

NB: While on the phone with your ISP, ask them what the DHCP lease time is. Ideally you want a static IP for your setup.

Ok, so I must’ve misunderstood the question, because to me it seems OP already has all the necessary ingredients to bake this dish. And yet, the vast majority of comments recommend various 3rd party services which is the complete opposite of selhosting.
Fire up nginx/apache2, and all good, no? What am I missing?

They can be. Some motherboards come with one built in. But in most cases it refers to its own PCIe card, such as one of the many models from LSI Megaraid.

The advantage of this is that it can have a small capacitor bank (or a proper battery) to provide emergency power so that if something stupid happens such as motherboard failure, the raid controller will use this power to cleanly write to the disks.

EDIT: I just remembered one such stupid situation at work where a motherboard died and then the entire system blacked out, including power to the drives. I spoke with my vendor since data loss and corruption carries a hefty price tag in my field. They told me not to worry - The data could sit in the buffer for ages, as the capacitor bank was there to handle things like this. Turned out that upon restoring power, once the array was online again, the write buffer will be written to disk. No CPU or motherboard required - the controller took care of it. This was especially handy since it took a little longer to find a replacement board.

Ooh, I did this a while back, except it was hardware Raid5 to Raid6. Turns out one of the servers in a cluster were, for some reason, set up with 11 disks in raid5 + hot spare, except for raid 6 on all raids on all servers. Took me embarrassingly long to realize why storage space was as expected despite one disk being reported as not in an array.

Storcli and a nice raid controller makes thinks like this easy, as long as you grab enough coffee and read the storcli syntax while taking notes to build the full command string.

Combustion assisted vegetable catapult, you mean?

Instance block gang represent!

*Throws weird gang-sign nobody has seen before nor since*

EDIT: Downvoted by one admin from each instance I’ve blocked

The generally don’t containerize things because I’m too old and crusty, but segregating over several users is basically how it’s been done for ages, and while it may not be particularly useful in your case, I consider it a reasonable best practice that costs you nothing.