I would scrape them into individual json files with more info than you think you need, just for the sake of simplicity. Once you have them all, then you can work out an ideal storage solution, probably some kind of SQL DB. Once that is done, you could turn the json files into a .tar.zst and archive it, or just delete them if you are confident in processed representation.
Source: I completed a similar but much larger story site archive and found this to be the easiest way.
I'm with Azire, they have port forwarding and 10 gig servers. Note they were bought recently by malwarebytes, so it is possible things will change in the future. For the time being, things have been great. I moved from OVPN after myself and others started experiencing persistant failures.
I've been meaning to try out CryptoStorm. If anyone has experience with them please share.
Congrats! I just got a similar running on Arch with a 5700 XT. When I looked at it a couple years ago, it wasn't really possible. Now, smooth sailing.
Yeah, you can turn off registration without a token. Then, if you want someone to register you can issue them a registration token, or manually create their account.
Federation can be turned on, on a case by case basis.
You can set rooms to invite only and not discoverable. Alternately, you can use an invite-only space that allows users to join rooms from there.
The first two parts are done in the server config, see the synapse docs. The last is done once the server is setup and running as an admin.
It is, but doesn't really play well with PTs in general. Not all trackers support it (some of the software is that old), and even when it works I've run into unexpected issues.
I would like it if there was increased adoption.
I don't know of any private trackers who are interested in users in your particular circumstances. The reality is, you can't really seed behind CGNAT. I would really consider shelling out for a VPN, you can get an okay one for 5-10 euro a month. If you're technically inclined, you could even set your own up on a cheap VPS for less, given you don't need fast networking.
If you have more experience with Linux CLI over powershell, I'd go with that. There are a few options: WSL2, MSYS2, Cygwin.
It makes way more sense to implement an auth cooldown over increasing the server load for a single action. I can't speak on the ideal settings for Argon2id, but I like to think the defaults are fine in most cases.
It is possible to tonemap DV to SDR, and I think to static HDR as well. Look into madvr and/or mpv. Both should be able to provide real-time tonemapping during playback. For reference, these pink/green videos would be DV Profile 5 (P5). I've heard the results are not great, so I would stick with P8 hybrid releases.
To start small setup a static website behind nginx. This requires you to create a basic website or copy a template, it goes somewhere in your filesystem, in linux /var/www is common. Once you have that, setup the nginx service and point it to that location. You can do this locally then expose it to the net or put on a VPS. Here is a dead simple guide presuming you have a remote server: https://dev.to/starcc/how-to-deploy-a-simple-website-with-nginx-a-comically-easy-guide-202g
Once you have that covered, ensure you know how to setup ssh keys and such, then install, configure, and run services. From there, most things are easy outside of overly complicated configurations.
Whether you like it or not, that's more or less what happens. You can/will lose a bunch of accounts for causing trouble. Sometimes I think it's a bit over the top. Instead of keeping out toxic or non-contributing folks it becomes a personal vendetta or innocent violation.
Overall, I'm a fan of banning known bad users, but restraint should be used and collected personal information should be minimized.
Yup, I think it'd work fine, especially if you want the ability to easily inspect individual items.
Any of the popular python yaml libraries will be more than sufficient. With a bit of work, you can marshal the input (when reading files back) into python (data)classes, making it easy to work with.