Could be due to the prolific centralisation of major infrastructure and services. Also, people just keep paying regardless of poor stability due to vendor lock-in.

Best I can do is $2.

I had the Z680s, they were amazing. Easily had them for like 15 years or something

Lots there to take a look at. I’ll definitely be setting up unit tests to test out multiple servers for sure.

Thats great, thanks. By the sounds of it I can probably continue with developed, I just need to find where people are going and what servers have the biggest population.

Thanks again!

Thanks, is there any indication on the number of daily users for some of those servers? Some of the IRC indexes would have usage graphs to get an idea of how popular it was.

Awesom, thanks for that. I’ll do some digging to see how widely used it is. Cheers

Oh get fucked. I’m not using any website that needs me to scan my face or prove my age, no good can come of this.

No stress, just making sure there wasn’t some other reason for it. Cheers

Had a look at that, sounds pretty cool. Curious to know why you linked to a fork that is out of date and not to the original at https://github.com/BassT23/Proxmox

Cheers I’ll check out Ansible, it been on my lost of things to look at over the years anyway so its a good excuse to dig into it

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll check it out

Yea that was going to be my next step if I don’t find anything that fits my needs, I’ll make it - but this is a solved problem for sure. I just need the right thing that’s close enough to what I’m looking for.

All good, yea its because I need crowdsec installed on the proxy as well - not just the bouncer - in order to actually send the logs to Opnsense.

I ended up having some weird performance issues so I pulled it all out for now and will revisit another time.

With the bouncer setup, I assume I need to pass in where to look for logs or something for those to be passed into the lapi? I followed this CrowdSec and Nginx Proxy Manager , as far as I can tell everything is connected an running, I have crowdsec running on OpnSense via the plugin - it appears to be healthy as per the CrowdSec Console.

npm  | [nginx       ] nginx: [error] [lua] crowdsec.lua:62: init(): error loading captcha plugin: no recaptcha site key provided, can't use recaptcha       
npm  | [nginx       ] nginx: [error] [lua] ban.lua:37: new(): BAN_TEMPLATE_PATH and REDIRECT_LOCATION variable are empty, will return HTTP 403 for ban decisions
npm  | [nginx       ] nginx: [alert] [lua] crowdsec_openresty.conf:5):11: [Crowdsec] Initialisation done                                                    
npm  | [supervisor  ] starting service 'app'...                                                                                                             
npm  | [app         ] [5/5/2025] [11:26:30 PM] [Global   ] › ℹ  info      Using Sqlite: /data/database.sqlite                                               
npm  | [supervisor  ] all services started.

Cheers, I’ve since discovered that’s is “bouncers” that I want on the endpoints I.e on my Nginx Proxy Manager. I’ll just use the LAPI on the Opnsense box for now I think.

I thought crowdsec does everything fail2ban does in addition to global block lists?

Where did you have it setup? Is your proxy configured to forward the real IP?

Nah, that one conflicts with my IPoAC networks unfortunately :(

I did have that same thought actually, with opening up opnsense to be modified. But I also like the idea of it getting blocked before it even gets into my network, instead if letting it in initially and then blocking afterwards - that’s kinda the whole job of a firewall after all ha ha