How’d you set that up with Opnsense fail over? I have an opnsense VM with input straight from the ISPs FTTP box to the NIC on my server. So I can’t fail over to my second proxmox box without swapping the cable over.

I built my website with

fortune, cowsay, toilet, lolcat and aha

Run your own DNS server on your network, such as Unbound or pihole. Setup the overrides so that domain.example.lan resolves to a local IP. Set your upstream DNS to something like 1.1.1.1 to resolve everything else. Set your DHCP to give out the IP of the DNS server so clients will use it

You don’t need to add block lists if you don’t want.

You can also run a reverse proxy on your lan and configure your DNS so that service1.example.lan and service2.example.lan both point to the same IP. The reverse proxy then redirects the request based on the requested domain name, whether that’s on a separate server or on the same server on a different port.

I don’t understand it either. On one hand people say don’t remember addresses, use DNS and on the other DNS relies on static addresses but then every device is “supposed” to have random addresses via SLAAC or privacy addresses. It just doesn’t seem to tie together very well, but if you use them like IPv4 addresses you’re apparently doing it wrong.

RAID IS NOT BACKUP RAID IS NOT BACKUP RAID IS NOT BACKUP

Don’t use Red drives for a NAS!! You need the Red Plus (or is it red pro) disks as they’re CMR.

I’d go for Ultrastar drives personally. There’s a few really good videos online analyzing the backblaze stats for different drives that are well worth watching.

EndeavourOS on my desktop and laptop. Works like a charm. By far the happiest I’ve been with a desktop distro.

On my server VMs I’m running Ubuntu Pro because it’s absolutely impeccably stable, Pro is free and I like the idea of having the option of not upgrading them for 10 years.

All running on Proxmox. I have a few appliance type VMs like opnsense and 3CX and they’re nice and stable too.

I received so much spam and abuse of my network from .xyz domains that they are fully blocked in every conceivable way from being accessed or accessing my network.

Pretty sure my Seagate usb disks I use for backup are SMR and sustained writes are awfully slow. Luckily I’ve discovered restic for backing up which lowered a 1.5tb weekly incremental backup from 9hrs to 1 min.

I highly recommend watching this guys videos on his analysis of the backblaze data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgJ6YolLxYE&t=1

And a comparison of the difference WD drive colours, which might not be what you expect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDyqNry_mDo&t=2

And why I no longer run NC. Every time it would fuck itself to death and I’d have to start from scratch again.

Ahh yes, the first time it is defined is in the conclusion after being used 25 times previously in the article.

Thank you! I hate unexplained acronyms

I skimmed through it and have no idea what BBR stands for.

I’ve been running 3CX for a couple of years with a Voicehost trunk configured. I found it much simpler than free PBX to setup and maintenance has been a breeze. There’s apps or a web based option too. 3CX can be a little picky with older unsupported hardware - the old Cisco phone I bought was a tricky setup, but the Yealink I have phone was plug and play easy.

The tricky bit was configuring the opnsense router and firewall to correctly handle all the ports properly, but I think that’d be the same for any solution and for an internal only option probably not required.

I mean it happened to be mail, but it could have been any service on a server without enough resources. Just bad luck for me this time.

Setting up the mail server was a bit of a pain, but so was setting up a lemmy server. For 6 years it really has been plain sailing. So I was due a change in fortune, I guess

…until they change their prices. Always make sure you have a local copy and a way out

Exactly. You’re connecting this to a PC of some sort, right? So why not just put the disks in the case? The OCW on uk amazon is £440, which isn’t far off what I spent on my server build.

That is very expensive. Why not just get a case that’ll fit 4 drives and a HBA in IT mode for a quarter the price?

I’ve been very happy with Opnsense running as a VM on both ESXi, and now Proxmox. Lots of configuration options and able to setup some complicated firewall rules easily.