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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Seems you’ve got the speed part of things figured out.

    One thing I’ll add is it’s somewhat common to host a DNS server within your LAN to resolve names for local only services. If you do choose to do this; I’ve found allowing names for services you expose to the internet to resolve to your public IP and then just use hairpinning when at home works smoother. Some apps do a really poor job grabbing and using the different IPs (wan vs lan) when you switch between networks; but they’ll work better if they always just use the public ip and allow the network to handle the different routing.












  • Plus Foldersync is way harder on battery, I’ve experimented a lot.

    This is very configuration dependant. With an aggressive schedule checking a large number of files, it certainly can use a lot of battery; but I’ve had it setup to sync my entire device to my server a couple times a day, while also monitoring/syncing images immediately on creation/change. It doesn’t even register on androids battery usage monitor as it uses so little power.

    Anyway; just listing an option for people to look at









  • More than any other piece of self-hosted software: backups are important if you’re going to host a password manager.

    I have Borg automatically backing up most of the data on my server, but around once every 3 months or so, I take a backup of Vaultwardens data and put it on an external drive.

    As long as you can keep up with that, or a similar process; there’s little concern to me about screwing things up. I’m constantly making tweaks and changes to my server setup, but, should I royally fuck up and say, corrupt all my data somehow: I’ve got a separate backup of the absolutely critical stuff and can easily rebuild.

    But, even with the server destroyed and all backups lost, as long as you still have a device that’s previously logged into your password manager; you can unlock it and export the passwords to manually recover.