You can use DNS over HTTPS or TLS with Quad9 https://www.quad9.net/service/service-addresses-and-features

If you are using PiHole just use that as the forward DNS.

DIY UPS sounds like the recipe for disaster.

I don’t see how you would feed the UPS with 230V converted to 12V DC, why use the UPS if you have 230V mains?

You need to pay for the last 5, but you can get a few licenses for free.

For many business 3 or 5 years support isn’t enough, they want guarantees they are not going to be forced to updates when they are not ready. Having to only rely on the developer just makes the support side of thing much less painful, when you try to explain to a customer what they are buying.

Ubuntu provides 10 years support for their LTS releases, you only get the with Debian though 3rd party support.

Yeah, it’s not great, but the 6500T isn’t much better, you really want the i7 or something newer.

I would give it a bit of time and look for something with 16 GB memory and a 4 core / 8 threads CPU, ideally a system that use an m.2 and SATA drive at the same time.

$150 is overpriced, you can get something like this at half the price https://www.dba.dk/dell-optiplex-3046-micro/id-1104387599/

I would just watch dba for 1-2 weeks and see what you can find, you can often get some good deals if you don’t need to buy something right now.

I think most server cards will work.

You can run it in a VM, I’m using an Intel I350-T4 in my VMware server, never had any issues with it.

I can be a card with multiple interfaces, or a device with multiple onboard interfaces.

Hardware like https://eu.protectli.com/ and Chinese clones is very popular, it has everything you need in a single box.

For hosting/homelab you probably want 3 network interfaces (WAN/LAN/DMZ), you can get away with only two (WAN/LAN) got it gets kinda dangerous if your server gets hacked.

Resources depends on what you want to do, just running a router/firewall doesn’t require many resources, but running full IDS/IPS require a lot of resources.

Yeah, I noticed my mistake right after I had posted the message.

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I have just use Linux with mdadm.

If you are using software raid, you can assemble the raid in any PC.

If you are using SAS drives, then you can save a lot by buying them used.

Never had the balls to do it myself, but from what I understand it not really an issue if you test the drives before use. You can check the SMART states of the drive, it will tell you how many hours of use the drive has.

Yes, the MX record is the mail exchange, it’s the record used to find the mail server for the domain.

I don’t store any documents that contain private info on NC, I store them on ProtonDrive.

Why not just run a standard internet facing NC instance, and just share the file with a shared link?

It would be nice if there was less focus on “not being Reddit”, and more focus on “being better than Reddit”.

What makes Reddit a good site is that it actually has a lot of “good posters”, no one is going to switch from Reddit to Lemmy just to read a lot of shitposter posting about Reddit and Threads all day long.

I wouldn’t try and mix different disk types, but you can check the documentation of your raid controller and see what it supports.

The SSD will be limited to the speed of the HDD, so there probably isn’t much point in doing this unless you swap all the HDD. If you swap all drives, it would be safer to build a new raid and migrate the data.

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