i built a PC in late 2024, and it’s easily worth twice what i paid for it.

I wrote the vendor and asked him if the decimal was in the right place or was this the model that was beta testing alien technology. Got to be a misprint.

Firefox 149.0.2 (64-bit), Linux Mint, using VPN. I must have settings that are blocking the processing of the domain for whatever reason. I’ve tried multiple domains including well known domains. No joy. Sorry about that.

I still live with my parents and they have no understanding of how vile corporations can be

As a septuagenarian, it’s really not their fault as much as the era they were most likely grew up in. We were taught to trust cops, governments, corporations, etc because these organizations had our best interest at heart. wink - wink

Good call. The only thing I need/want from my ISP is the cable coming into the house. Everything else is off limits.

So, I’ve come to the realization that I should probably set up a VPS, since that should solve basically all of my issues. All I want is something that can forward/proxy gigabit traffic to my server, probably over something like wireguard.

Forgive my addled brain. Are you wanting a VPS to set up a VPN like Wireguard? If so, the VPS won’t have to be anything huge I would imagine. For something like that, I would go shopping at lowendbox.com. The important bits would be the speed rather than size of the VPS. Also, since you mentioned you already have Docker running, Wireguard Easy, would be the easiest to deploy.

For one, he spec’d a Protectli VP2420. You are going to pay for the Protectli brand name. They are great boxes no doubt, but you could most likely find the same spec as the Protectli VP2420, in something cheaper. Two, I think on eBay, things are priced by how much the vendor thinks he can get. If it’s a bid scenario, they probably have a minimum purchase price set. Most often, I just select the ‘Buy It Now’ option and save myself the hassle of getting into an endless bidding war which is usually manipulated by the vendor using multiple eBay accounts or ‘friends’. That is, unless I think I can save several hundred dollars on something.

Perusing eBay, wow, yes prices have gone up. It’s been quite a while since I’ve bought any new devices. However, I think you could get away with a suitable firewall device for around the $300 +/- if you did some shopping.

In that guide, he has a firewall mini PC that costs about $540.

That’s pretty high for what you really need, imho. I purchased my stand alone firewall box from eBay. It’s been quite a long time ago, but if I remember correctly, it ran about $275+/- USD. Specs:

• Mini Fanless (tho I did add a fan)
• Intel® Celeron® CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz
• Current: 1600 MHz, Max: 1601 MHz
• 4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
• AES-NI CPU Crypto: Yes
• QAT Crypto: No
• Upgraded to 32 GB RAM (overkill) and 4 TB SSD (overkill)

I installed pFsense on it, but OpnSense would work too, I’m just not really familiar with OpnSense. I run Suricata (IDS/IPS), ntopNG (traffic analysis), pfBlockerNG (filters), TailScale (as an overlay), and a couple other ancillary packages that just make things easier. I have noticed no bottlenecks, or slow down, even for the box’s age. pFsense, imho, makes VLANS pretty straight forward. I have segregated my network into multiple VLANS so that I can isolate iOT devices, mobile devices, cams, servers, etc. The firewall appliance doesn’t really need to be some big honkin’, spec’d out box to do it’s job.

do both switches need to be managed switches for the VLAN tags to stay intact?

Managed switches are the way to go.

That’s interesting. I didn’t know Podman had a Windows environment desktop app.

Exactly this. Especially if you have to slog through un-skippable ads just to find out the tut is trash.

No worries mate. I’m sure there are YT channels that cover selfhosting, but for me, I get more out of reading most often. Others may be able to help in that regard.

Tho not quite as popular here, there is also https://noted.lol/ and to a lesser extent https://mariushosting.com/docker/

https://dnschecker.org/

I update after I feel all the early adopters have worked out all the bugs for me.

s’ok bro. I’m not on all cylinders today.

LOL

Hey bro, thanks for the lead! I will read the issue report and check if netdata is current.

@ilyam8 - adding to it here, netdata does leave tons of zombies around, this is not a “cannot reproduce” (not sure why that tag was added without even the minimal response, and then removed needs triage on top of that, so this ticket just dies off) One simply needs a running netdata instance and let it run a while. With time, 1, three and then tens of zombies will be listed at login.

due to some blocking network process; typically NFS mounts.

I’ll check that out.

7791 7768 201 /usr/sbin/netdata -u netdat 8.8 0.5 01:49:50

It could be harmless, but it could become a problem if you need the resources.

That’s the thing. None of them are consuming resources. I guess I should just ignore them, but it irritates me when I start my server, to see zombie processes. Makes me think something is askew.

Do you run a DE?

I’m not familiar with the acronym. I’m going to assume Desktop Environment. My servers are all headless as well