It could have looked like BL2 with a few upgrades and more physics and that would have been fine.

Why buy this absolute disaster of a game?

Running memtest to check if it’s a RAM issue might be worth it.

Also could be overheating storage, that can cause weird issues.

There is barely any overhead with a Linux VM, a Debian minimal install only uses about 30MB of RAM! As an end user i find performance to be very similar with either setup.

I run debian on everything, so I set up unattended-upgrades for security updates and basically forget about it. Docker updates are also automatic with Komodo, just make sure databases are pinned to a major version.

For monitoring my services I use Uptime Kuma, and get an alert if a service goes down so I can fix it.

Been pretty solid for years now. Things get rebooted every month or two when I do a Proxmox upgrade and reboot the host.

Not a clue how tbh, I’m not much of a programmer.

An hour is crazy, something definitely isn’t right.

That said ncdu is still pretty slow, large scans can take several minutes if there are lots of small files.

I wish there was a WizTree equivalent for Linux that just loaded the MFT nearly instantly instead of scanning everything.

Everyone has email, and text is also a good option.

My local town alerts come through both, with more urgent alerts like if a fire starts nearby through an automated phone call.

In the case of these ones you just remove the LXC/VM it created.

Install Debian as a server with no GUI, install docker on it and start playing around.

You can use Komodo or Portainer if you want a webUI to manage containers easily.

If you put any important data on it, set up backups first, follow the 3-2-1 rule by having at least 2 backups in place.

The problem with stuff like yunohost is when it breaks you have no idea how to fix it, because it hides everything in the background.

Sounds like NFS might still be the way to go for you.

For backups personally I use Restic and connect over SFTP via SSH, since that’s just built in and doesn’t need any configuration.

For more traditional file sharing I use WebDAV with SFTPGo, since I need windows and android compatibility too, and webdav is pretty easy to setup and use.

And I also use Syncthing for keeping some directories in sync between devices.

Only if you enable their proxy on a DNS record, or use their tunnel feature. Otherwise it’s just DNS with no access to your traffic.

Cloudflare is fine for DNS hosting and the control panel is well made and easy to use compared to a lot of other services, they have no access to your traffic or anything unless you specifically use their proxy features.

Add the domain to cloudflare, change the nameservers in Bluehost, and you should be all set to use Letsencrypt via the API.

You could also transfer the domain to Cloudflare.

Is there a settings application you can open? It should have a network section in there.

Basically just the bare minimum

• Email (Zoho, still on their old legacy free plan)
• Backblaze B2 for Restic to store backups on
• DNS for my public domain name (Cloudflare)
• Uptime monitoring for my website (HetrixTools)

You can still use Syncthing to pull photos back to the phone, Immich just stores them in organized directories as normal files.

Well definitely faster than 1 Opteron at least: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/1569vs2910/AMD-Opteron-6272-vs-Intel-i5-7500

Single thread is massively better, but if that’s useful or not depends on the kinds of applications you’re running.

Newer CPUs can also just be better optimized and have more faster cache and that sort of thing, so might be faster at running a process even if they’re the same on paper.

Those old server CPUs and motherboards just draw a ton of power, I’m not sure there’s much more you can do.

It might be best to change hardware if you need lower power draw, a $50 PC off ebay with an i5-7500 should be faster and a only uses about 15W idle.

That N200 is likely on par or faster than dual Opteron 6272 CPUs, since they are so old.