DDOS can happen just from a script hammering on an exposed port trying to brute force credentials.

What?

I’ve popped up a web server and within a day had so many hits on the router (thousands per minute) that performance tanked.

Yea, no, any exposed service will get hammered. Frankly I’m surprised that machine I setup didn’t get hacked.

Interestingly (I just found this out) Android permits 1 VPN connection per user profile.

So I run a VPN in my regular profile, and found my work profile wasn’t using it. So I installed Tailscale there, and it works only in the work profile, while my regular VPN only works in my main profile.

If always assumed VPN config was a system-wide thing.

Static IP address and Dynamic DNS can expose your network to attackers on the internet. With Holesail, you expose only the port you choose.

Er, wut? If you’re exposing a port, then your public IP is being used, as a port is a subset of an IP interface. So even Holesail uses the public IP in some way…thats how the internet works. Unless they’re only making outbound connections, which isn’t a new idea at all - Hamachi was doing it 20 years ago.

This sounds like FUD to me - of course your public IP is used, whether static or dynamic. How do they supposedly mitigate this risk?

There’s nothing on the home page saying how it works, or how it’s different than current solutions.

I’m intrigued to see a new tool in this space, but this one is starting off leaving a bad taste. Even Tailscale admits they use Wireguard, and even have a comparison between Wireguard and Tailscale that’s pretty honest (though they focus on what Tailscale adds).

Being open and transparent is a minimum today - anything less and it’s not worth the time for a second look.

These magnetic attachments hint at functionalities similar to Apple’s MagSafe,

Or perhaps, Motos concept that was in production 10 years ago?

Last I checked Magsafe did nothing like this, only charging/connecting.

Can Proxmox with some containers/VMs address your needs?

Its what I’m running for a media server (a VM) and some containers for things like Pihole and Syncthing.

I’m so disappointed in this crowd, came in expecting some smart-ass comments, like “Angry Birb”

Professional self-hosting was the way it was done until SaaS took off over the last 20 years - we just never called it that, because it was the only way to do things at the time.

Now we say things like Cloud or On-Premise. And as another commenter proposed, call it “Private Cloud” to sound fancy (wel, it’s not the same thing, but it sure sounds good!).

To my thinking, self-hosting means consumer-level hosting of services for a person, family, friends, generally at home, with VPS as an alternative server host.

Oh man, this is brilliant!

Haha, everything about that story is awesome, right down to the lost and found Jabra ear bud (does Jabra exist any more? At one time their ear pieces were the best).

Yes, re-silvering takes fucking forever. Even with my little setups (a few TB), it can take a day or two to rebuild one drive in an array. One.

I can only imagine how long a PB array would take.

Lol, sorry, I really tried to make it clear what I was doing, honest, I did! 😄

Yes, I have 3 local devices that replicate to each other, one is RAID5, (well, 2 are, but…not for long). And one of them also does backup to a cloud storage.

Not ideal, because 3 devices are colocated, but it’s what I can do right now. I’m working on a backup solution to include friends and family locations (looking to replicate what Crashplan used to provide in their “backup to friends” solution).

I run RAID5 on one device… BUT only because it replicates data that’s on 2 other local devices AND that data is backed up to a cloud storage.

And I still want it to be RAID 6.

Oh, wow, last I looked they were a lot more than that.

Plus when I looked a Pi wasn’t $50+.

I’d probably just get the print server today at that price.

I’ve seen these kinds of issues over the years with different tools on a variety of phones. It’s so hard to know what the root cause is.

Some phones are just fine,others eat batteries, even when on the same versions of Android and the app.

Sometimes it’s just so hard to figure out.

First, find a good battery stats app. The factory stuff often isn’t granular enough. I use GSAM, because I’m lazy, my phone isn’t rooted, and it’s good enough.

Second, make sure whatever apps your using across TS aren’t doing something during this time. I have to carefully configure sync apps (Syncthing, FolderSync) to be sure they don’t use TS unintentionally.

Ooh, that’s a good one. Most home routers have that now.

You could try setting up a cheap Raspberry Pi with the print service (I forget what it’s called). Even a Pi Zero W would work, just need a USB cable to the printer.

I’ve found USB print servers to be rather pricey, since they aren’t used much any more. At least spending money on a Pi would give you something you could do a lot more with.

There’s a Sync thing client for Mac and iOS(Möbius).

Just like auto updates is a feature I turn off, and yet I still get automatic app updates (and I set all network use options to “ask”, and it never does).

I’ve had the same problem across multiple phones since about 2015.

Hahahaha, sorry to hear (but I empathize). I can be a cheap bastard, so I have some shitty thumb drives around. I figure they eventually die anyway, so this stuff isn’t permanent.

I keep a folder on my server with the tools and noted to rebuild each one. Sometimes I even make an image with the tools, and only leave the ISOs out.