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I like that they show the team on the About Us page, always makes me trust companies more. I also like that they have fun with the branding and mascot.

I've used Namecheap for several years, no problems experienced with it.

Since all of the Reddit changes happened I took the time to try and back away from social media as I had a sort of addiction and probably still do. Now I consume much of my social media in the form of RSS feeds, even took the time to add all of my YouTube subscriptions to a RSS feed reader and unsubscribed from channels that I felt were too clickbaity, don't get me wrong there are a few I still follow.

There are also some of us that are/were trying and experimenting with different types of the fediverse, such as Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Firefish, Pixelfed, etc. I have found myself gravitating toward Firefish, and Mastodon for the feed style, where as Lemmy, and Kbin are better as a forum or Pixelfed for image feeds.

Take a look at RSS-Bridge and RSSHub. They provide feeds for many websites that don't provide their own RSS feed.

Yeah, that's kind of what I expected and I am now thinking of keeping my setup how it is currently and getting a mini PC for less important data and services to tinker with.

Thanks for the reassurance. What I currently have is exactly that, RAID for the local data, and a spare drive that is mounted and unmount when data is backed up, and that is rsynced offsite to a cloud provider. I figured that my current setup was really reliable as I had slowly been researching and working on this over a few years.

I have a sort of itch to play with a mini PC, I guess it would be best not to hurt any of my important data by downgrading the setup, however this is a good time to really sort and figure out what I need and is important and what isn't as important and can be reobtained if something fails on the mini PC.

Thanks for that information about iSCSI, I hadn't looked into it. I will probably just stick with my primary server for the moment, maybe rebuild it into a NAS, and than use mini PCs with it as the storage.

I guess, my primary concern was if I didn't have the computer with ZFS(in my case btrfs but similar thing). Maybe it is for the best that I keep the raid setup to scrub and make sure important data is safe, and use the smaller single disk mini PC for services and data that isn't as important.

That is a very good question, it makes me think of better organization for my data. Data such as task lists, and daily notes aren't necessarily very important, while family photos and documents would be more important.

Using your own router is the best way, I just finished setting up DoH, I am using a router with OpenWRT, so installed https-dns-proxy with luci-app-https-dns-proxy. It has options to hijack DNS so that all local devices will be routed to the router DNS even if they try to use a DNS server directly.

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There was a point I had a minimum of one service from each category of the awesome-selfhosted repo. I've since scaled down to a more minimal approach, but still enjoy looking for new services to try out.

Monitoring is one that's interesting, graphs can be fun to look at though, so Grafana for that, and it's fun for family to see, even if they don't exactly know what it means, lines and charts are pretty.

I have since setup most of my monitoring to only alert if there is something that is unusual or outside of some threshold. Previously I had it alert me when a process or script had finished, however it was too noisy, and instead now it checks to make sure the script succeeded and if it didn't to alert me.