Engywuck

+1 for Hetzner

YW 😄

I have a couple of no-brand SATA-USB enclosers with some jmicron chipset. Can’t remember the exact chipset right now, as my RPi is not working ATM (see edit).

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX should do the job

Yeah, I use something like this, a no-brand enclosure.

I’m using a couple of cheap Kingston A400 for my setup (120 and 480 GB) and they work just fine. One thing I noticed is that the 120 GB one’s health went down to 92%, from 100%, in “just” one year (smart parameter). But that’s implies a lifetime of more that 12 years, so I’m not excessively concerned.

EDIT: of course, just after writing this comment the smaller SSD began to behave strangely (errors in dmesg).

I have a couple of subdomains there and yes, it may take a few days for the confirmation. I guess there’s indeed some kind of human review.

Was about to suggest Zoho myself. I have a couple of personal domain email hosted there and they’ve been very reliable until now

I have a .de domain with them. No personal info are shown on whois info.

Was on Namesilo. No complaints, save for the slow website. Changed to porkburn because it was a bit cheaper.

MIne is on a RPi4 4 GB as well (the AIO container) with two SSD and the performance of the frontend are meh… But I seldom use the web part anyway and mainly rely on the desktop client/android App, which work just fine.

WDYM?

EDIT: ok, sorry. Link fixed.

https://freedns.afraid.org, cloudflare…

Not an expert, but AFAICT email self hosting is not considered a good idea, as the maintenance of an email server requires a lot of work. An alternative could be using Cloudflare for the DNS and set up email routing (for free).

True, I forgot about that.

1. Check out afraid.org and learn how to set up DDNS.
2. I’ve been using afraid.org for a long time with no issues. I don’t know IPQuick.
3. Real domains can be REALLY cheap if you don’t need something fancy. Just go to https://tld-list.com/ and sort for “cheapest renewal”.

Domain+Zoho Mail Lite subscription (less than 1€/month, ATM).

Uh? Is this a thing? And, if it is, what’s the use case? Just curious…

AdGuard Home comes with a few more goodies vs. pihole. Last but not least, access control, DoT, DoH, custom DNS for selected clients and so on (you need a domain and a certificate for the DoT, DoH, though)

I may also add that if one doesn’t want to host something himself, Hetzner offers quite cheap Nextcloud instances with admin access and thus the possibility to add users/apps.