I love how it says "Restaurants" but then displays an image with ice cream, makes a lot of sense 👍

Thank you for pointing these things out! I've removed Dockge from Uptime Kuma.

I've noticed the same thing. Every Intel N100-based machine costs ~200€ on Amazon.

That seems to sum up my question. Thank you!

I know, I just added the speed test because I can. If people want to use it, they can.

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Hey, thank you for your blog post. I'm definitely reconsidering my choices with Cloudflare tunnels. I will take a look at the VPS setup. Privacy is something that I really care about, so this would be pretty useful. I would definitely be ready to pay 3.29€ per month for the privacy aspects of this setup.

Njalla doesn't seem to be a good option according to this comment on a privacy-focused forum.

I prefer owning my server hardware than renting a VPS. I completely forgot that I couldn't port forward in my home network, so Cloudflare was my last-minute solution to that problem.

I redownloaded Snapchat today on my degoogled phone since my friends use it all the time now and I've also seen that it somehow got all of my contacts. Turns out that it uploaded my contacts to their cloud without me clearly telling that when I first signed up.

To check if your contacts are in cloud: Go to your profile > Open "Settings" by tapping the cogwheel > Under "Account Actions", select "Contact syncing" > Tap "See contacts shared with Snapchat". You can delete your contacts there too, I just did that. If you have an Android phone, I'd recommend you to patch your app with something like ReVanced to minimize data collection.

It's great for my needs. If you think about picking one up today, I wouldn't really recommend it. It just offers too little resources to be actually viable in the regular day. I use mine because I had it laying in the dust for a couple of years. Well, it's enough for my Mumble server and the bots I use for Discord and Matrix.

I tried to open the port 22 on UDP (yeah, I am getting pretty desperate over here...) and still get the message no port[s] to connect to... Someone else on this post commented that I should stop using iptables for opening ports and start using something else as a firewall. Should I try this approach?

I want my private information to be hidden in Whois requests. Also, I don't want to buy a domain from a registrar that seems very sketchy.

I've never heard of Intel N100 before, what's that? Just so you know, a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 Gigabytes of RAM costs ~90€ in my country (Germany). I wouldn't really count that as overpriced. Could you show me some machine examples with Intel N100?

but the SD cards don't last long

This is what scares me the most. Ideally, I want a whole SSD to store data. I really don't want to lose any important data. I plan on hosting public services (like the services I've mentioned above) under my domain, so having a reliable drive would be really helpful.

Is a Pentium powerful enough? I recently found a YouTube channel called "Wolfgang's Channel" and he also has a home server with a Pentium. He says it is plenty enough for these kind of tasks.

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback!

Thanks! I'm glad that I could show you some other services!

Hi, thank you so much for trying to help me, I really appreciate it!

VPS wg0.conf:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.1/24
ListenPort = 51820
PrivateKey = REDACTED

PostUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 '!' --dport 22 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.2; iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source SERVER_IP
PostUp = iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p udp -i eth0 '!' --dport 55107 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.2;

PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 '!' --dport 22 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.2; iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source SERVER_IP
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING -p udp -i eth0 '!' --dport 55107 -j DNAT --to-destination 10.0.0.2;

[Peer]
PublicKey = REDACTED
AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/32

Homeserver wg0.conf:

[Interface]
Address = 10.0.0.2/24
PrivateKey = REDACTED
 
[Peer]
PublicKey = REDACTED
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0
PersistentKeepalive = 25
Endpoint = SERVER_IP:51820

(REDACTED would've been the public / private keys, SERVER_IP would've been the VPS IP.)