Have you thought about building your own? You build a server out of a case like this IN WIN. What OS do you plan to use? Do you need Windows share ability? Are you willing to go with larger SSDs instead of spinning disks? If you give me some more details, I might be able to help you. I am not a fan of Dell.

I wouldn’t do this if I were you because any of your activity can be traced back to you via your credentials.

rDNS is something that is not set up by your domain registrar. It’s set up by your ISP or cloud VM provider.

I don’t know of one specifically for clothing but I know of a great ERP free open source software called ERPnext. This could easily work for you.

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I cuurently use one of three registrars: Namecheap, Cloudflare, or Porkbun. Porkbun is my favorite and I will move my domains to them as they expire.

What is your NAS? Is it something you built or a Synology?

Not only is a DIY UPS unreliable, but it could be potentially dangerous unless you are an electrician, an electrical engineer, or somebody that has extensive knowledge of both the engineering side and safety side. How many CyberPower units do you have? It’s impressive that you have enough UPS power to run a NAS for that long.

I have a Dell OptiPlex 7050 acting as a router. But I don’t do any port forwarding. Instead, I have an Oracle Always Free VM that is connected to my server via a WireGuard tunnel. The cloud VM acts as reverse proxy to all of the services that I host. The OptiPlex 7050 is running OpenBSD.

You could simply gut it, keep the case and power supply, and put modern components in it.

Good suggestion all around but I am huge fan of ERPnext. ERPnexr is 100% open source and includes HRM, accounting, a help desk ticketing system and more.

Check out ZeroTier or Tailscale. Either one of these options would be your best bet.

I am truly no fan of containerization. I only will containerize an app once I understand what it is doing fully. Otherwise, I think containerization is merely an abstraction layer for someone who wants to get up and running quickly which is I think is not advisable. That’s my 0.02 anyways.

I am not a fan of the way they do their setup procedure. I have no way of validating their install script other than to download it and go line by line to make certain it’s not malware. I think I’ll skip it. Hard pass but thanks.

Well, to use the ActivityPub protocol and operate like Lemmy and Mastodon for example. Also see Pixelfed and PeerTube as examples.

Your project looks interesting. Do you have plans to give snapify the ability to federate and share with others?

Scrivener is a fantastic tool! It’s a shame that it will likely not be open sourced but I will give the devil its due credit. Scrivener is brilliant for authorship.

Bookstack is an excellent tool. Was it originally conceived for authors? I’ve only used it as a knowledge management system. In fact, I stood up a Bookstack instance at work to document procedures for my fellow desktop support engineers.

I do the very thing that you are seeking to do. I have a free Oracle Cloud VM running nginx as a reverse proxy. Between the reverse proxy and my home server is a WireGuard tunnel. There are some benefits in that ports do not need to be opened on your home network’s firewall so you don’t have to do any port forwarding. If you want to go this route, the advice I have for you is to get a free Oracle cloud VPS, install NGINX Proxy Manager on it, and configure a WireGuard tunnel between it and the actual server that the service you want to provide resides on. NGINX Proxy Manager is actually not hard to get going and there are plenty of YouTube videos on it. In fact, for people new to self-hosting I really recommend NGINX Proxy Manager as I started out that way. NGINX Proxy Manager has a well designed GUI. In fact it is so well designed that most of the options are self-explanatory.

As I learned nginx and became better with it, I decided to decommission NPM in favor of a pure nginx environment because I am actually faster on the command line than a GUI. The hardest part for me was getting the WireGuard tunnel built between my home server and my cloud VM. That more pointed out to the fact that I didn’t have a good grasp of how firewalld works and firewalld is used in Alma Linux which is on my cloud VM. That was the real challenge.

I’d like to apply because I am always looking for someone passionate about open source, Linux, and BSD - also networks galore. I currently run my own Mastodon and Lemmy instances. Please look me up on Mastodon at HousePanther. I am sorry your friend turned out to be an asshole and did you dirty. That’s not cool at all! There are good people out there.