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They do

Plus, if you end up accidentally locking yourself out if your own system: boot access means root access (Secure your IPMI/iDRAC, folks!)

Added one in the OP

It’s my go-to for whenever I need something on screen from the terminal, such as when I want to test X forwarding over SSH

I’m far from an expert, but I’ve been using Hetzner for close to 20 years at this point. Both their VPSes and the actual rent-a-server.

I skimmed the article and I didn’t notice anything blatantly bad in the approach. So they have my approval.

+1 for rdiff-backup. Been using it for 20 years or so, and I love it.

By living in the middle of fucking nowhere. I haven’t locked my front door in over a year.

Why not go truly selfhosted and build your own? Any PC + JBOD + ZFS, then add whichever services you need. NFS or SMB should get you a long way.

Plenty of guides out there.

I started hosting stuff before containers were common, so I got used to doing it the old fashioned way and making sure everything played nice with each other.

Beyond that, it’s mostly that I’m not very used to containers.

Are you able to ask your ISP customer service to set up port forwarding for you?

At minimal you want HTTP (Port 80) but you probably want HTTPS (443) as well. If you’re hosting DNS as well you will need port 53 too.

Have those ports routed to the “inside” IP of the machine you want to use, and the rest of it is basically just setting up the webserver (and possibly DNS) to serve your domain.

NB: While on the phone with your ISP, ask them what the DHCP lease time is. Ideally you want a static IP for your setup.

Ok, so I must’ve misunderstood the question, because to me it seems OP already has all the necessary ingredients to bake this dish. And yet, the vast majority of comments recommend various 3rd party services which is the complete opposite of selhosting.
Fire up nginx/apache2, and all good, no? What am I missing?

Rear wheels: 235/55R19XL
Front wheel: Fred Flintstone style

What’s your favorite dinosaur?

They can be. Some motherboards come with one built in. But in most cases it refers to its own PCIe card, such as one of the many models from LSI Megaraid.

The advantage of this is that it can have a small capacitor bank (or a proper battery) to provide emergency power so that if something stupid happens such as motherboard failure, the raid controller will use this power to cleanly write to the disks.

Ooh, I did this a while back, except it was hardware Raid5 to Raid6. Turns out one of the servers in a cluster were, for some reason, set up with 11 disks in raid5 + hot spare, except for raid 6 on all raids on all servers. Took me embarrassingly long to realize why storage space was as expected despite one disk being reported as not in an array.

Storcli and a nice raid controller makes thinks like this easy, as long as you grab enough coffee and read the storcli syntax while taking notes to build the full command string.

Ironically, it’s only gotten better since 2015ish. For the most part I’ve used pulseaudio like most others, but I’ve also used jackd when I need to do audio stuff. After pipewire became usable it’s more or less flawless for me.

FYI, Nvidia drivers can be a bit hit and miss. It takes a little bit of fidgeting to find a combination of kernel and Nvidia that works. And when you do, use timeshuft to make a restore point so that in the future you have a functioning setup to work with.

And when you find a combination that works well, stick to it. The “Omg, new driver is out”-reaction will only cause issues.

For me, Nvidia 535 is the one that has been working out the best. I think I’m running something newer now, but it’s still alright.

Mint main, here. This is the way - Now and then Nvidia driver updates do cause some issues, so when upgrading I always make a time shift restore point in case the kernel+Nvidia combo doesn’t behave properly.