Thanks, I’ll check it next time startup takes awhile, the only thing standing out from my current log (wasn’t a low startup this time) is loading images took about 3 seconds.

I’m really curious how you expect someone to make a living if they offer everything for free.

It does seem a bit better now on 15.3, but essentially on 15.x often the first time I start it up in the morning after my PC has been in sleep state all night, it will sit for 10-20 seconds on “Loading connections”. Starts after that first one are only a few seconds like normal.

Is there a log file I can poke through to see if anything stand out next time it happens? I only have about 20 connections in total.

Regardless I love the software, it’s very useful even for my small set of self hosting stuff I use it for!

Thats correct but that is fine for the majority of setups.

What about using the default docker bridge networking instead of macvlan? You can access docker containers from the host, they can talk to each other if on the same bridge network, and there’s nothing hardcoded into the docker compose files.

The last few updates in particular seem to have very long launch times

Mailbox.org is great, their webmail setup is good and has contacts and calendar and all the things you would expect to have. With Cal/CardDAV and ActiveSync support too.

Fire up the browser and watch the DNS logs, you’ll need to still allow update checks most likely.

Yeah there are plenty of advantages of a full system backup, like not having to worry that you’re backing up all the specific directories needed, and super easy restores since the whole bootable system is saved.

Personally I do both, I have a full system backup to local storage using Proxmox Backup Server, and then to Backblaze B2 using Restic I backup only the really important stuff.

I first decided to do a full-system backup in the hopes I could just restore it and immediately be up and running again. I’ve seen a lot of comments saying this is the wrong approach, although I haven’t seen anyone outline exactly why.

The main downside is the size of the backup, since you’re backing up the entire OS with cache files, log files, other junk, and so on. Otherwise it’s fine.

Then I started reading about backing up databases, and it seems you can’t just back up the data directory (or file in the case of SQLite) and call it good. You need to dump them first and backup the dumps.

You can back up the data directory, that works fine for selfhosted stuff generally because we don’t have tons of users writing to the database constantly.

If you back up /var/lib/docker/volumes, your docker-compose.yaml files for each service, and any other bind mount directories you use in the compose files, then restoring is as easy as pulling all the data back to the new system and running docker compose up -d on each service.

I highly recommend Backrest which uses Restic for backups, very easy to configure and supports Healthchecks integration for easy notifications if backups fail for some reason.

If you exclusively use cloudflare tunnels you don’t need a proxy on your end unless you want to do split-horizon DNS for local access.

But otherwise, nginx, caddy, traefik, npm, etc… all work fine with Cloudflare. Personally I’m using Traefik and Caddy on my setups right now.

Also, a bit off-topic, but is Cloudflare’s proxy really needed? I heard it’s insecure to self host sites without Cloudflare because you’re exposing your ip address and leaving yourself vulnerable but is it really bad to self host without Cloudflare?

Up to you, cloudflare is a recent thing and hosting was done without it just fine before it came along. Personally I don’t use cloudflares proxy very much, I just use it mostly for DNS management.

I use backblaze b2 and https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest

Backrest is by far the best restic manager I’ve found, easy webUI, with built in support for healthchecks.

Backrest (restic) is what I use after constant duplicati problems. Kopia is also a good option.

Duplicati is ok with tiny backup sets, but give it multiple TB of data and it chokes and constantly has errors requiring expensive rebuilds.

A lot of companies use Google mail anyways so your emails will be scanned regardless.

A series are great, much cheaper especially used, and have better materials (like plastic instead of glass backs), while having essentially the same hardware performance.

Crowdsec has default scenarios and lists that might block a lot of it, and you can pretty easily make a custom scenario to block IPs that cause large spikes of traffic to your applications if needed.

Basically everything. Self hosting doesn’t rely on public access.

Check the logs for the containers and see what the issue is first. Then go from there.

100% reliable so far, I’ve bought about 10 of them I think over the past 8 years or so. Some are in RAID 1 arrays, and some just on their own for backups and such.

The main thing is buy from a local shop or online place like serverpartdeals.com and not Amazon or other online marketplaces.

All my stuff is backed up several ways every night (which should be done no matter what drives are used) so it’s not that big of a deal if they failed suddenly.

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