That would be wild if it was caused by logging, even a cheap piece of crap SSD is usually rated for 500TBW. Even if you were generating 1TB of logs per month that would still be 41 years before it wears out.

My ebay used enterprise SSDs are rated for 3.6PBW, and they were cheaper than a basic consumer Samsung drive at the time.

I wonder if the best option might be one of those remotes that has a little keyboard on the backside and works as an ‘air mouse’. Because I don’t know of any good interfaces for a traditional remote.

You don’t need caddy if you’re running cloudflare tunnels.

Yes you can do that, it runs in docker so the bind mounts can be easily put wherever you want.

Power back on needs the BIOS set to power on after power failure, the UPS will shut down after everything powers off, so the power coming back on will start things up again.

Worth a look, any Intel CPU with onboard graphics that’s not horribly old will have quicksync on its iGPU.

I dunno if there’s an iOS equivalent but on my Android phone I use the WG Auto Connect app so it’s only active when not on my home wifi.

I generally just make notes in Obsidian, mostly about switch ports, VLANs, IP assignments and that kind of thing.

Also try to save snippets of commands or config edits I needed to get something obtuse working in case I need to do it again later.

My solution is other people in the house don’t rely on anything in my setup, other than the router which runs some basic telemetry and fraud/phishing domain blocking but that’s all.

They cost about $2/month at the average power rate in the US, so it’s too small to notice I imagine.

I’ve used a RV/Marine deep cycle battery attached to a UPS before, that would certainly give you enough for 2-3 hours on most setups.

Have a look at Backrest for Restic. It works great with pre/post scripting and supports healthchecks for monitoring status and stats.

Also is a nice easy to use WebUI which is great for servers.

It should be the same setup regardless if you’re using a VPN or not.

Having used both I generally prefer traefik.

Does it have QuickSync support? If it does it might be able to handle a few 4k transcodes.

Alternatively I wonder why the video is needing to be transcoded in the first place, maybe you can get it playing natively.

Wireguard is where it’s at.

Latest thing is my server was hard locking up randomly every couple days. Finally thought to check IPMI and it was triggering a correctable ECC error on a specific stick of RAM.

I figured maybe the first couple errors were correctable by the ECC RAM but then they just got worse and caused the lock up.

Pulled the 2 sticks in that pair and so far so good. I’ll survive just fine with the remaining 192GB of RAM lol.

Also switched from my old Dell box with Opnsense to a Linksys MX4300 running OpenWRT, saves me about 20W and its fun to try something different.

I don’t think those really idle at much less power, so I’d take the performance of the normal variants

Intel i3 or i5 4th gen or newer will be solid.

Dell, HP, Lenovo all make a ton of generic office PCs that are good for a home server, and you can find older models for under $40 in the US so hopefully they’re also cheap in Brazil.

I like it quite a bit.

ReCaptcha is usually like 2-3 9x9 grids of images to solve, sometimes with ones that vanish and get replaced as you pick them. It often takes me at least 15-30 seconds to get through it.

I think it’s also not remembering that I passed one, because if I reload the page it asks me to do another one.