BBC has just started doing that at https://social.bbc

https://localdesktop.github.io/

Minus the itsfoss spam

No need for using sensational/clickbait headlines like this.

What is FUTO?

FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation.

https://futo.org/

No, not really. Programming requires understanding of the underlying hardware, at least to a certain extent. Otherwise performance issues will look like dark magic and optimizing anything would be impossible.

Where do you start debugging if something goes wrong with the software and your information level is this low/ do you look at network stats? CPU utilization, paging/swapping? Is the hard disk bandwidth the bottleneck? Without at least some passable understanding of a computer architecture people like this just throw up their hands, or throw whatever tricks they know at the wall and see what sticks.

The thing you want is "glue records" the upper level server would serve ns1.example.com (this is an approved domain for example use, better to use example.com than making your own example up) as the authoritative name server. Then provide the glue record which says "ns1.example.com is at IP address X".

It should ask for IP addresses as well as hostname. Otherwise they only assumed people will "host" their domain in another hosted, as opposed to self-hosting.

In that case (and in any other case) change your registrar to someone else who supports glue records.

Lots of people contributed really good answers, so I don't have anything valuable to add to their answers. But I wanted to point out for your detailed question, you include what you have done, what is your understanding and what are your shortcomings clearly. As opposed to a lot of posts with vague, detail-challenged narratives, that's a top notch post.

And the community delivered by giving good answers, so go community!

Also, you didn't just ghost after the initial post and interacted.with the people who graciously donated their time, so another bonus point there, as well.

Don't forget smallpox! (Polio still has pockets where it lives, but no longer a threat to general world population)

That's fine, it says "pie" anyway...

Well, it seems I'm also out of the loop wrt the out of the loop communities ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I use porkbun.com for my domains, which is excellent, and also has glue record support.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/112-how-to-host-your-own-nameservers-with-glue-records

Same here.

https://longhorn.io/ for the curious

A good answer to a "why?" question is "why not?" This can be a great learning or practice opportunity for redundant network links and other interface challenges.

Yeah, that's the key point. They weren't trawling all the servers, they probably had a wiretap order for one specific server. As a legal business, you can't just say no to police because you don't like mitm.

+1 on not using containers.for Network routing stuff That way lies pain and misery.

in addition to "dedicated Nas + compute node" and "just use a desktop" suggestions, there's the microserver option in between. Small, but has enough power to run stuff other than storage.

Hp proliant microserver is what I use, you can try getting a previous generation from second hand market.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/compute/proliant-servers/pip.proliant-microserver.1014673551.html

Case dismissed!

I do increase the size of the cursor permanently, and colour them brightly. It works wonders, a bright pink or cyan or orange cursor always makes me smile a bit when I stop to appreciate it.

Ah true. Companies are great at hiding the open web that they (ab)use.

Two people communicating one-to-one and starting a new account to solely dedicate to maintaining a pretty public open source project doesn't sound too fishy, tbh, if everything else checks out. (Catfriend1 confirms the handover, etc.)