RAID is more likely to fail than a single disk. You have the chance of single-disk failure, multiplied by the number of disks, plus the chance of controller failure.

This is poorly phrased. A raid with a bad disk is not failed, it is degraded. The entire array is not more likely to fail than a single disk.

Yes, you are more likely to experience a disk failure, but like you said, only because you have more disks in the first place. (However, there is also the phenomenon where, after replacing a failed disk, the additional load during the rebuild might cause a second disk to fail, which is why you should replace failed disks as soon as possible. And have backups.)

With software raid, there is no controller to fail.

Well, that’s not strictly true, because you still have a SATA/SAS controller, HBA, backplane, or whatever, but they’re more easily replaceable. (Unless it’s integrated in the motherboard, but then it’s not a separate component to fail.)

No, they mean that if the controller fails, you have to get a compatible controller, not just any controller. And that usually means getting another of the exact same controller. Hopefully they’re still available to buy somewhere. And hopefully it’s got a matching firmware version.

But if you’re using mdraid? Yeah just slap those drives on any disk controller and bring it up in the OS, no problem.

Ask, sure. Sue, maybe. Commandeer extensions, absolutely not.

If they don’t like people using their open source project, they shouldn’t offer that license.

Yes, through Namecheap. Right now it’s just hosting my personal site on WordPress, but I’m going to switch that soon due to Matt Mullenweg’s drama or just take it down entirely.

Regular nginx does this just fine https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/tcp-udp-load-balancer/

Keep in mind that you can’t route tcp by hostname, because hostname is not a property of tcp. It only knows IP addresses. Host routing requires a protocol like HTTP.

I’d never heard of this, so I looked:

These scripts empower users to create a Linux container or virtual machine interactively, providing choices for both simple and advanced configurations.

Isn’t this what the native Proxmox web interface already does?

I don’t think you want a mail server, you want a mail archive. A quick google search for “selfhosted email archive” shows a number of good leads.

Agreed. For businesses, spend the couple bucks to have Microsoft or whoever put their huge resources behind keeping you online. It’s a lot better than having the server with all your services go down when you’re expecting an important email.

What do you want it to do? If you have all your music, a bunch of folders with MP3s works.

Yes. Every other email server will mark you as spam, and every spammer will be trying to use your server to spam others.

That says that it is a bug.

Does the tailscale IP of the host change?

It’s open source, so you could compile it yourself if you wanted.

Looks like it’s targeting .NET 6.0 though, which ends support in less than a month. I don’t know if it’s easy to change, so it might be worth it to the devs to start work on a cross-platform and currently supported client.

Sure, you’re welcome to keep using the version you like, or to write or maintain one on your own. Or pay someone for their labor to do it for you.

But if you use something made out of someone’s good will, don’t rely on it for anything critical.

They make wireless SD cards. Pretty sure USB drives too.

Or you could build one yourself with a raspberry pi or something. I’m sure there’s a way to present its storage on USB, then add wifi for you to access that storage.

How much storage do they have these days? Personally I’d just load a bunch of media directly on to the devices and not worry about additional hardware or networks.

eBay, Craigslist, Goodwill, Facebook marketplace, or whatever your local equivalent is. Most basic graphics cards don’t need additional power.

There exist USB graphics adapters, too. But they can be janky and may not show the boot process.

Email archiving? You can probably find self-hosted products for that. Or any service that speaks a compatible protocol with your host can fetch mail from the host and delete it on the remote side to save space.

I buy mine used from eBay. When I receive them, I inspect them, check SMART data, and run a test. I’ve gotten one that had a cracked connector, one with a bunch of bad blocks, stuff like that. I reached out to the sellers and they replaced them at no cost to me.