Where Telegram seems to come in handy is using the bots to send alerts, e.g. from Uptime Kuma. That's all I use it for, I presume that's what most of us use it for?
Most definitely a scam. Website shows a different URL to the domain and the phone number is formatted completely randomly.
Pointless re-inventing the wheel. Help with some existing project instead. NPM needs some help, few bugs to fix and a little bit of added functionality to make it perfect.
Aside from other stuff mentioned here about email. I always assumed I'd become a target for spam that I'd have a harder time filtering out to the point it stops being worth it to have a custom email address.
Can't work out how or why hosting it at home would mean more spam? Your email address gets on a list that gets pulled by spam merchants, hosting it at home doesn't make any difference here.
Same with Bit/vaultwarden, all clients grab a copy of the vault from the server when they sync so if the server is offline all clients still "just work".
Chances are your router can have a fallback DNS.
Chances are it can't. You can probably set multiple DNS servers (anywhere, not just routers) but they aren't a primary/secondary sort of deal. Most traffic might be weighted towards the first one in a list but you will find traffic still hits the others.
I'm going to say sort of all of the above, but not just across the whole board. Some services I host because I want a better service than is available elsewhere.
For example I host AdGuard Home and OPNsense because it's better than my ISP supplied router and I get more out of it so that's better service. I host Immich because I don't want to pay Google to store all my photos when I have a server sat here that's quite capable of doing it so that's cost I guess.
The correct answer has been given a few times here, split tunnelling.
But your idea is mental. If your IP changes and access is locked down by IP address how do you expect your phone to connect to your server to tell it about the new IP if it can;t access the server due to the fact it hasn't got the correct IP in the allow list?
Well it won't. You either tell it to assume that say oldest is always source and if there are identical files then you get asked to choose.
DietPi. I have quite a few VMs running DietPi, very light, simple, "just works"!
I have to reluctantly use Docker which is cumbersome, awkward and confusing in comparison. A DietPi VM is simple and easy to run, use and more importantly, keep backed up. I really hate being forced to use Docker when DietPi exists and works!
It has certainly helped me get my head round docker. I don't have to remember what folder I left that compose file in or what that command was. Because of using Dockge I now get the correlation between the command line and compose files (although I still hate languages that rely on whitespace/indenting but that's another rant for another day lol).
I really like the clean simplicity of this (and Uptime Kuma). Couple of things I think would be handy, some shortcuts or snippets for the console, rather than having to try and remember all the prune commands etc could have some custom one click buttons to do it (or maybe chain the commands like docker system prune -a && docker volume prune -a etc?
Are you integrating Telegram with this again? Obviously we can monitor the containers with UK but I was thinking of an alert if there's an update available if we can add some update check?
Absolutely lovely interface though, really glad this came along. Thank you!
Depends what you set in the DNS records and where you published them? Literally no idea tbh.
Zerotier, or any other VPN service that is outbound/cloud hosted.
What router is it/what settings does it have? If it has IP/port filtering I would imagine it would have some sort of forwarding service.
There are a few things I want to host that are very firmly "docker only" images. I get docker, I understand why it exists but I can't get into it. I have had docker and portainer running in the past but found it cumbersome (portainer updates were a minor annoyance, and updating docker images seemed "wrong") but I can't get away from it.
I happened across CasaOS earlier which sort of looked like something that would help, then looked at alternatives to this and saw someone suggest Cosmo which says it needs installing on docker so I got confused again!
Is there anything that's truly worth using to make installing/managing/updating docker images simple or is it just more complicated in the long run?
For the record I do have ESXi and countless VMs, I find spinning up a VM simple and it suffices for all my needs apart from a couple of specific things (like a Google Photos replacement). I don't really want to learn docker just to use Immich!