I love how succinct this is, will be sharing this around with some local gays

That's a shame. Can't win 'em all I guess 🤷 Thanks for the encouragement!

I've used solely CasaOS for about a year. As someone brand new to self hosting with limited knowledge or desire to understand all of the details, it has been relatively straightforward to work with. I have learned about docker and how it works through using it and have a appreciated the plug and play store options when I haven't had time to work it all out myself. I am considering moving to Yunohost because of the good things I've read about it, like the other comments here, but docker seems to be the best way forward and as CasaOS does that reasonably well I may also just stay with what I know.

Good luck! It took me a good while to figure out how that all works

Very inspiring, looking forward to hearing more about how it goes. I've been thinking of doing similar for an indoor/third space (I would love an overnight library/cafe) but all the hoops to go through seem really tricky. Best of luck!

I'm also running foundryvtt and have the basics of network security down but not much more. Is there anything I should be particularly wary of if I'm hosting it via a cloudflare tunnel for my group?

I'll have a look into NFS, that might be the way to do it in the short term

Black mirror isn't dystopian, it's real life, exhibit A (ref: s7 ep 1)

Ok thanks, will have a read around. I'm no dev so I'll probably leave it as it is, but it's good to know the risks I'm taking.

I struggle to understand the material on btrfs but I'll give it another go at some point, thanks for the rec :)

I went through the same thought process as you a while ago, also with CasaOS. I ended up using the *arr suite, Jellyseer and then this container via Portainer https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/. All the instructions are on there for whichever provider you go with, and all it took was making sure the env variables and permissions were in the right place.

Thank you! I think restic is the way to go it seems, the docker config seems reasonable. Now to find another hard drive to mount and point it to. Hetzner is very reasonably priced too!

Duplicacy looks really cool! Thanks for the rec. Will have to look into getting a NAS at this point I think!