Off the shelf something like and EdgerouterX is great,
You could consider running Crowdsec as well on yr firewall that way known bots will be blocked
I love it, it’s so nice for quickly jumping between apps
Immich without a doubt
Works great with PIA, highly recommend
I run Dietpi on 3 PIs, one is a remote backup that is wireguarded into my network and my server runs BorgBackup to it
Do what you can to make this the place you want to be.
Nah it was lame, some people had good strategy but it came down to crappy challenges and crappy people
Pretty much, strange in the self-hosted community to have stuff like that happen.
Wireguard is super quick and easy to setup and use, I’d highly recommend to do that now. I don’t understand the recent obsession with Tailscale apart from bypassing cgNAT
Immich is so good. I love it