Yep, used ECC server RAM DDR3 or DDR4 is basically thrown out. Unfortunately most consumer mainboards do not support ECC.

Yeah, but storage requirements go up, so it stays the same (at best). It feels more expensive though.

Don’t even need storage or performance or anything on the VPS, just forward stuff to the homeserver.

But that is about the ISP (and all hops in between). The provider, where you buy the domain, does not see the traffic at all. Basically the domain seller just controls the nameservers for that domain, but doesn’t see the traffic that goes to those domains.

Basically by buying a domain you buy an entry into the telephone book

You can rent a cheap VServer as well and use its static IP to forward traffic. Easiest for it would be SSH reverse tunnel. Or you could VPN it with your homelab (connection established from within your homelab).

If you don’t want to rely on an external service you could as well establish a VPN server within your homelab and use IPv6 to connect to it, although the disadvantage would be, that if you’re trying to connect from IPv4 networks ‘outside’ that wouldn’t work.

Just listing some options to research. Welcome to the hobby, have fun 🤗

Apparently Australians three hours at noon https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offer-free-power-three-hours-dmo/105965472

Or if you have one of those fancy new “bill by the minute according to exchange prices” contract in the EU, you might even receive money for using electricity at certain times 😅. But those times are (yet) far in between, so blasting the sweet free energy on crypto is not really viable.

How do I learn

…you say in your OP. Yet instead of learning, you complain “what kind of crap server is that”. You don’t learn by thinking anything is the softwares fault.

It is perfectly normal, that you can reach the server IN your home network only when you are connected TO your home network. That is a security feature by your router and thus by design. But in order to learn how to open it up, you would need to be willing to learn. About security, about networking, about how to find servers, i.e. the internet and more.

But for the beginning: how is that even bad or crap? Like, it saves your photos when you come home and connect to wifi. Awesome, congrats!

Probably language settings. Depending on your client you need to change those in the Lemmy WebUI. There’s something like preferred languages.

You put them in a safe. Safe falls down, spinning is gone.

You put them in a safe and forget about them for some time. Flash is gone, spinning still has data.

Webdav is just a http “file system”. You can then e.g. mount the storage space as a webfolder in your operating system.

I kinda had a similar problem. Never found the root cause, but what did the trick for me was to put an OpenWRT Router between the default ISP router and my home network.

As I said, I never figured out, why Android did not respect the DHCP settings of the default router, but here we are. Maybe it was some DNS shenanigans by the ISP’s config, maybe it was a wrong DNS/DHCP configs from my side, maybe it was IPv6 shenanigans. Those are the culprits I would investigate from your side.

Yeah, I don’t get why they don’t just put a RasPi in some corner, put PiHole on it and call it a day.

Geez, I mean, they could even charge extra for it, as they now block ads for their customers as well.

Like, imma gonna sell my advice to Amazon now, so they can clean up their act.

Lots of people recommending a proper domain, I would as well (way easier)

Just, if you want to go the complete “independent” route: either make sure all the clients you plan to use can just accept self-signded certs and skip validation or you need to create your own CA and import those into your clients.

Depending on which clients you plan on using that might be impossible (e.g. for some IoT devices, some Smart TVs and such).

That is why having an proper domain and use LetsEncrypt, ZeroSSL et. al. is way easier.

I mean, Email is twofold. Like running the server and getting inbound email: just as easy as all the other services.

Outbound? That shit can be difficult, near impossible on residential. But as outbound mail is kinda “lost” anyway in a privacy sense, I would not feel too bad about using a relay.

Unfortunately Bruce is really poor. Everything he uses day-to-day belongs to a foundation on the Caymans, whose owners are not known. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Cannot tax that guy.

Awesome, thank you. Then I’ll give it a try, that would solve a headache of several years.

Question for the Immich users: if I have two users A and B, who share all pictures. Can user A create an album with pictures from user B? That doesn’t work with Nextcloud and is grinding my gears!

Well, that is how I started out. Docker was not around yet (or not mainstream enough, maybe). So it is basically a legacy thing.

My main machine is a Frankenstein monster by now, so I am gradually moving. But since the days when I started out, time has become a scarce resource, so the process is painfully slow.

That tool also saves a copy of the website. But I also do not use the browser bookmarks and a tool, that only syncs bookmarks. And that is the reason: syncing, so I have all the bookmarks on all devices.

Here’s a tutorial for mastodon https://carlschwan.eu/2020/12/29/adding-comments-to-your-static-blog-with-mastodon/