Arch is customizable, like legos. It’s neither minimalistic, neither lightweight. It gives you almost unlimited amount of legos and you build something. Bad at building - you fucked. Good at building - congrats.

You don’t require to melt those bricks from plastic tho (gentoo) or rebuild an existing OS (Ubuntu).

Also when you buy Arch Lego© set, you also get a great instructions on how to do it (arch wiki) + recommendations on how to order additional less-frequently used legos (AUR).

That’s why I prefer Arch. 👌

Lmao. True!

Missing at least these:

1. Load balancers/Reverse peoxies - Caddy, Traefik.
2. Missing DNS server “blocky” which I find way better than Pi-Hole.

Nice list, but could have more. :)

Technically like this:

Anyone -tcp80-> vps -tcp80-> router -tcp80-> homeserver.

Exit of homeserver-originated traffic would be your router, not vps. Unless you specify custom routes in your router, then yeah, might be possible.

Also you don’t need EoIP tunnel at all, since it’s all in Layer4.

Some time ago I’ve done a “public IP implementation” on my VPS when I was on mobile network (no public IP).

Basically set up IPSec/Wireguard on VPS and connect your router to it. Then setup EoIP over VPN between VPS and your router. Then add EoIP tunnel to your LAN’s bridge in your router.

Then setup all ports forwarding (using iptables) from your VPS to your router on LAN, so if you connect to your VPS using tcp80, it will be simply forwarded (NAT’ed) to your router. Except tcp22, for SSH to your VPS obviously…

And now you have yet another public IP lol.

This is not something you asked, but might give you some ideas.

I’ve done something similar in Ireland, where ISP router was the only way to connect. Managed to setup everything on OpenWRT router, but it kept disconnecting, so I put openwrt router behind ISP router.

Interesting thing I found in ISP router is DMZ host - just point it to your own router and that’s it. Basically ISP router doesn’t exist lol.

Then you have absolute freedom with your router.

Isn’t “MAC NAT” you are after? I’ve seen Mikrotik has this feature to perform NAT for bridge devices. EDIT: no, since your ISP might check at DHCP leases and realise that you are cheating. Go with regular router instead.

Also regular router would be sufficient IMO. Also don’t forget to set static TTL value so your “ISP” doesn’t see that you have a router between your devices.

Also create MAC address and save it. Always change it before connecting - you will have less trouble.

IMO if you are asking such question - stick to Bitwarden cloud.

Passwords, at least to me, is something I don’t want to lose. I don’t trust myself I could provide a proper uptime & security, so I just use cloud version.

Yeah. I just wrote something similar. 😅 https://lemmy.world/comment/1330730

Here is the example docker-compose.yml:

services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy
    container_name: caddy
    volumes:
      - ./caddy/data:/data
      - ./caddy/config:/config
      - ./caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
    ports:
      - 80:80/tcp
      - 443:443/tcp
      - 443:443/udp
    restart: always

  lemmy:
    image: lemmy
    container_name: lemmy
    ...

Before executing, create a new directory caddy i working directory, then create new file Caddyfile in it (lemmy is a container name):

mydomain.com {
    reverse_proxy lemmy:<lemmy_container_http_port>
    encode zstd gzip
}

Then fix your UDP Buffer size, so it’s compatible with QUIC: https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/wiki/UDP-Buffer-Sizes

And that’s it. tcp80, tcp443 and udp443 should be reachable from anywhere, as Caddy out of the box uses ACME to retrieve TLS certificates for your domain.

Give it a try. Honestly Traefik is shit for a simple load balancer. It’s more suited for large enterprises and kubernetes services, but it also has numerous issues, such as basic auth performance issues, lack of headers customization as well as in overall somewhat difficult configuration. Caddy makes it straightforward & simple, which is perfect for simple users who love to self-host.

I tried using Traefik in big corporation, 20+ different load balancer and reverse proxy (all with TLS termination) rules.

Caddy not just worked, but also worked faster and was WAY simplier to setup (using Caddyfile and reverse_proxy directives) than Traefik.

I get your point and I agree with you, but let me clarify what I was talking about.

The idea is a very small office where people don’t focus on working with computer, but rather use computer to help certain tasks, process payments, save something to MS Excel and so on. Those people don’t really need laptops, so stationary devices are perfect.

Just focus on what I wrote. I am the “admin” of such “small office”.

Intel nuc is perfect solution for me, the performance is more than enough and small size factor really takes the cake. I am really sad that NUC goes away and hope that soon there would be alternative. ✌️

I think user asked for a small factor PC, just like intel nuc. IMO intel nuc is a perfect PC for a work desktop. They can even mount on the back of the monitor - excellent feature. Not sure if any other brand has such feature.

Intel NUC. Myself I prefer Proxmox as the first layer (so I can do stuff remotelly), and Alpine Linux VM as a second layer.

This been rock stable for me for the past 1 year or so.

If externally available - i use domain. If local - by ip:port. I find it easier to rely on firefox bookmarks and their folders lol.