If you just wanted email forwarding, cloudflare support it. If I remember correctly, it’s included in their free plan

Depends on the hardware, but my weak server can sometimes be overwhelmed with random ip trying to find a vulnerable service (accessing random port and path combination)

For me it’s mainly to aggregate multiple news site so I can more easily read them. It also helped me to centrally track which news article I have read across multiple devices

Thanks for the ideas! I really like the third one

My biggest fear of hosting my own important data is losing it to some hardware failure. Currently I mitigate this issue by mirroring my NAS data to onedrive (with encryption)

I always like the idea of home assistant, but I haven’t figured out a practical automation for my home. Maybe you can share some of your most useful automation?

I only have a few services:

• jellyfin (media server)
• firefly iii (expense manager)
• freshrss (rss aggregator)
• personal telegram bot to auto convert news link to epub for reading in my ereader

All of the service other than jellyfin is hosted on a vps. Jellyfin is hosted from my home and can be accessed remotely via wireguard. However because my isp doesn’t provide a public ip, I need to use my vps as wireguard jump host

Client <-> vps <-> home server