Have a look at jq, a shell tool that can pass json and output in any way you want.

Or yes a python script will do that too

self hosting is all about whats right for you, as said, lots here use cloudflare. I would never use cloudflare as I like to mess up my stuff on my own, not have some company piss it up and have to wait for them to fix it.

I would see plex as the half way house of self hosting, you run a service that someone else has the control over.

Have you looked at Vivaldi?

It has an insane amount of custimation, out of the box no extensions needed

Also, you could setup users without email. As I don’t think it’s mandatory

Edit: can confirm email is optional

if you run home assistant, you can setup music assistant that has snapcast builtin

Music assistant has a snapcast server builtin, so you could replace all your Google devices with snapcast clients

Did you I know music assistant can use snapcast as media device and so can announce and play music?

Sounds like us, ta

Not much clearly

I know, that’s why I’m asking.

What’s your number M8?

If you can cover all that, I would hire you on the spot, that’s more than most of the candidates we have seen in the last 8 months

Thats a long list of things to cover, how much free time do you have?

I would start with setting things up by hand and understand what your doing before you jump into automation, as that will give you a good grounding in how to automate what you setup.

We’re looking for a DevOps engineer and so far have only got bods that have done Aws certifications, most have experience with a terminal and can’t setup a basic web server even with the internet at hand.

Run stuff you use, if you don’t use it delete

hosting a proxy server is part of self hosting, so I would to that anyway. asking me to pay for that is not going to fly

I dont have a problem with donations, thats different from “you must pay me to use my thing”. As donations is an opt in, I would do that. Paying to host my own content on my own server is taking the piss

I never understood why you would pay to do things that you can do for free

So I have a tinc mesh for my house, VPS and dedicated server. I have started using pangolin for access to things from the internet, I have also used pangolin as a VPN into my networks from my phone

looks like you need to check the config and see if the crawler is setup right

I dont use ufw, Im old and run raw iptables. But network perimeter here is the server perimeter, not the network (e.g. router). But I would apply the same logic to routers, only open ports you need

MaxAuthTries in the deb man page has this: Specifies the maximum number of authentication attempts permitted per connection. That could be both password and key

Just because you know how things work, doesnt mean everyone does. This is a good starting point for new homelabbers, as I see questions about security now and then

I can confirm that the information is relevant to anyone hosting stuff on the internet, yes the site is a mess of style. that shows it has grown over time. I wander if some of it is AI generated and so has its own look