SayCyberOnceMore

Yep, hence my comment…

You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.

My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.

That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.

Backups… fine

When’s the World “test you can restore” day?

Ok, didn’t think about “unlimited” actually being slower - thanks for the insight.

I’m running a pfSense f/w at the edge, so split horizon DNS and haproxy are already sorted… I’ll check out wireguard - should be straight forward

Thanks

I’m considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.

What’s the rough sizing I’d need for a VPS? I’m guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?

Why not… or try another brick in the wall

Ah, yeah, you’ve just reminded me, I must move my stuff off proxmox when I get a chance.

I tried that proxmox backup thing when I first set it up, good god what a complex mess… backup & recovery needs to be as simple and as smooth as possible.

Pretty much everytime I try to do fancy stuff with the bootloader I get pretty close to nuking systems. Worst was my 1st UEFI system where I was trying to get rEFInd to show multiple OS to boot from… eventually gave up and went back to the warm embrace of GRUB

Ah, have you found the land of IoT? Bricks everywhere, you’d love it.

Ah yes, reminds me of messing with my 1st pfSense firewall… I learned how good their recovery process was that evening

Nah, if you’re installing something user friendly (ie Linux Mint just for an example) it’ll work 1st time, guaranteed - or your money back.

But… you’ll only really learn once you’ve fubar’d something… just like falling off riding a bike

Yep, it’s something that more people need to consider to keep their free (as in the source code is not a prisoner) software going

It looks like jellyfin costs ~$500/MONTH just for their hosting fees: https://opencollective.com/jellyfin

If everyone using jellyfin contributed $1/month, I bet that would be covered

(No, I’m not affiliated with them)

What’s the general thoughts on running a TOR node?

I think an exit node would probably get my (domestic) ISP asking some questions and / or my static IP getting blocklisted quickly

Yep, BOINC has regularly warmed my home office over many a winter… until I shutdown that machine.

Maybe I should try again…