Right? Some of these comments feel “you gave me commands to run and I should be able to turn my brain off to interpret the outputs”. These aren’t newbie commands so the assumption would be that you kinda know what you’re doing at least a little bit. If not, then don’t run them… similar to how you should approach all commands/things from the internet
Actually, I moved from dedicated hardware last year to using KVM VPSs, interconnected via VLANs and tunnels (like WireGuard or rathole).
Cost and flexibility were the main reasons. This allows me to change locations, upgrade plans, or switch hardware more easily.
Before, I ran a Proxmox cluster at home on an two old Supermicro server and a Protectli Vault (which still exists as a single Proxmox instance), plus instances on Hetzner and Webtropia with a dedicated server. That setup cost around 150 EUR/month, even split with a friend.
For local storage, I use 2x QNAP NAS.
For time synchronization, I rely on 2x NTP270 from CenterClick.
As a TAP device, I use the Protectli Vault and a Pi 4b.
AdGuard Home is deployed on my OpenWrt GL.iNet routers.
Most of my services are now hosted on VPSs:
3x Netcup VPS 1000 ARM G11 (6 vCores, 8GB RAM, 256GB NVMe) 7.29 EUR/month each
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