I dont know about caddy but nginx proxy manager does this very well. Also, if running in docker, you can expose the port that runs ssh for forgejo und a different port than the host machine‘s (eg 2222). In that case you just put the remote in with the port and call it a day.

I‘ve been their webhosting for 10 years and besides some minor errors (website didnt work for 30 mins here and there) I‘m very happy.

I informed myself about their cloud programme with help of a sales rep and although it is quite expensive compared to hetzner, it seems very usable.

I dont think you need to worry about them for a vps. Its not like they would rob you or your data will be lost. They might turn out to be slightly better or worse than hetzner long term which would both be fine in my book.

Understood!

I meant much too complex to grasp without more context, sorry if that came out wrong.

I didnt think of the pi being potentially used for high resolution/audio quality footage. My pi runs on a 720p tv so the internal gpu has a lot less to do than yours so I guess its possible that was the problem.

Good luck

Just run a sustained load over the cable in both directions and/or use testing tools. Even if the cables were okay, something is sincerely wrong with that setup and its not the pi as they work very well.

Your setup sounds much too complex and misses key information and troubleshooting steps. The flat cables are kind of the cherry on top.

You need to start laying out which devices grab which stuff from where and which cables, switches, routers and panels you are using.

Otherwise people wont be able to help you. A new router isnt going to help you at all.

Example: I run plex on a terra miniserver, stream to my phones and computers over wifi (the server is connected via cat7 wired networking with a tested gigabit connection). I also stream to a libreelec-pi in another room which is also on wifi and has issues sometimes. That is why I‘m gonna wire the connection later this month so that is no issue. I also have an appletv in the livingroom which is connected by wire and has no buffering. There are 3 gigabit switches and a fritz!box also connected but they‘re all gigabit as well: Between PCs and the main router, appletv and the main router and the server and the main router.

Yeah no. Forget it. We‘re not speaking the same language.

My interpretation was by far the most generous to your position, because it’s the only way it’s coherent.

You’re entitled to your opinion, I guess.

hardware that doesn’t actually provide anything anyone can realistically use

Thats misrepresenting reality and making assumptions while clearly showing lack of expertise

at a reasonable price

Thats completely arbitrary. If a price is reasonable or not depends on many factors. Obvious oversymplification.

That’s treating a current purchase as an imaginary investment in maybe eventually being able to buy something useful.

This shows that you have no idea what you are talking about. Small companies and open source projects depend on people buying their products instead of cheaper, sometimes better performing products of big conglomerates for other reasons than price alone.

I’m not buying hardware that doesn’t suit my needs as an investment hoping maybe it eventually will.

You were misrepresenting things. Your needs have nothing to do with things not being functional. Something can be perfectly functional and not meet someones needs. Nobody said you should buy it as an investment.

Yeah, thats the reason why we‘re in this capitalist hellhole. Perfection comes from billionaire money, nothing else.

Interesting! Thanks for chiming in. I‘ll read up about it.

Sounds like a cool idea! :)

Indeed I am. I‘m in posession of a working laptop but I could maybe order a riscv tablet from pine64. I already have the pinetime and the stuff is pretty awesome.

I really enjoyed watching it. Thanks for referring to it.

I‘m more on the builder/tinkerer side so I‘m pretty much in starting position with risc-v now. But yes, its going to be some time before any of it is user ready as a pc.

Tangent: If we started buying risc-v systems we might get to a point where they can actually compete.

For many reasons I would go used. There are used server vendors which have great machines for a reasonable price. You can of course build your own with that money but if you go used you will have a beast which will likely run for decades still.

The issue is once you turn it off, the federation attempts by other instances will fail and the software has an increasing „back off“ mechanic. That means after the first failed attempt the instances will wait eg an hour before reattempting federation, then two, then four, then eight, etc. this means if you turn it only on when you want to use it, your federation will only kick in after a huge amount of hours. That makes no sense, sadly.

You can host an instance on any pc you can install stuff on or run docker containers on.

The issue, as the other commenter said, is that the computer needs to run so that it can catch and send federated stuff. Otherwise you are an island which can be a good usecase for a school or small company but not generally.

A probable usecase would be an old pc which you leave running or a raspberry pi. You route the federation ports through your router and nothing else. That way you have full federation and very few attack vectors. The most secure way to use it is locally on your network or by connecting via vpn.

I‘m fine with paying because I‘m starting a business. But I‘m not fine with tracking the payments so I will donate a set percentage of my profits (once I have them) to an open source group, no idea which one yet. The rest is not my problem.

Pretty solid advice.

One could argue though that a backup script could pull the particular container image right after doing the backup to have maximum coverage.

If someone is already that adept at scripting to rely on a script to do automatic backups, they can very well pull the new images and clean old ones.

I‘m one of those who have a backup script and still use watchtower.