ampersandrew

But why use DNS service over another? Sorry if you’ve covered this already and it’s just not clicking yet or something.

Yeah, I’ve only got a handful of services I want to run. It’s possible that the bug bites me and I want to go deeper into this stuff, but for the here and now, I’m only eyeing 8-10 things I want to host, and they ought to work across a mini PC and a NAS.

Why do I need that? From my perspective, it seems like it would be more useful if I had far more services that I intended to run than what I’m actually planning for.

I plan on putting just about everything I can in Docker containers, but I don’t think what I’m doing requires VMs, unless you spotted something that’s eluding me.

I’m not happy with Bazzite for this purpose. Its previous purpose was to be a game console, but I’m reassured by the recommendations for Debian.

Then use a GUI. The extra memory used is trivial and your system will be way over-powered for a reverse proxy to a home network anyway.

It will be more than just a reverse proxy, but I suspect it will still be more than powerful enough for the extras. Thanks.

Are you going to update frequently?

Yes, just so long as I’m the boss. I don’t want any downtime that I’m not in control of.

Your DNS servers would be the ones where you register your domain.

The tutorials I’d been looking at were showing them overriding the DNS servers at the domain registrar with servers from Cloudflare or elsewhere. Is that just because there may not be an automated way to update the IP dynamically with the domain registrar, but there is for Cloudflare?

I think the tunnel method you’re suggesting is different than what I’m after, and a lot of the “complexity” in learning this stuff is coming from all the different methods we have available to achieve similar results. I ought to be able to just expose 443 once I’m fully up and running, and it will route to the various services through the reverse proxy and subdomains. My “zero trust” separation for security ought to be my VLANs. So if I’m not going exactly that route, where would my DNS servers come from, and why would I need something other than what’s there by default?

I know the CLI is effective. My daily driver has been Kubuntu since 2017, and I dabbled with Ubuntu for a decade before that. But I’m so much slower on the command line, because I have to think so much harder about each command, and the outputs are often unintuitive to read and parse out what I’m looking for.

Thanks. My NAS comes with a Docker GUI that I’m fairly comfortable using at this point, but I figured I’d end up using Portainer on the mini PC. So CertBot is the software that will get me a self-signed certificate until I’m ready to expose it to the web? And I can install that via Docker container? Desktop Debian is totally cool for the mini PC OS?

4x18TB in RAID5. I went with 18s because it was the best value for $/TB when I bought them, which was just before prices spiked. That gives me almost exactly 50TB of usable space after formatted capacity and space lost to RAID. If I bought drives today for the same price as what I paid earlier this year, that 50TB shrinks to 35TB. I’ve only got DVD and Blu Ray rips on it; Jellyfin counts 120 movies (105 of which are Blu Ray, 15 DVD) and 1166 episodes of TV (10 series on Blu Ray, but number of episodes per show varies wildly). This is the full fat rips with MakeMKV, all special features, no video compression via Handbrake or anything; almost exactly 11TB used. So I’ve got a lot of room for expansion, and I plan on also using this NAS for other things that will probably be a rounding error compared to my Jellyfin library.

Gotcha, thanks for taking the time to humor me. I never would have guessed.

Maybe you said so in some lingo that’s foreign to me, but what upsets that reputation? What kinds of configurations do they not like, and why is it not set and forget? Sorry for asking for a dissertation, but I never had any idea e-mail could be more complicated than set and forget.

What is your reputation in this context? And what does losing it cost you?

Would you care to give some additional context here? I haven’t had the itch to host my own e-mail, but what kinds of misfortune do you encounter when you’re not in the good graces of Google of Microsoft? And what could land you in that situation?