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  • Sure, you can probably build something similar with zfs snapshots, but it’ll likely not be as convenient. Have a VM? Create daily snapshots. Break something and can’t figure it out? Just reset to the last backup to a complete working state.

    Personally, I have the containers’ mounts in the VMs (ergo on the nodes’ disks) and just using the NAS for the backups. Even if both Proxmox nodes catch fire I can just import the snapshot to a new one and have a working VM in the same state again. That’s a whole different level from re-cloning all the compose stacks, mount NFS shares etc. It’s the ease of use.


  • I use both. The main benefit of proxmox is having VM snapshots/daily backups, if you mess up, just restore the whole thing. You also have stricter isolation, e.g. put public facing containers in one VM and local only stuff in another.

    Also has high availability if you have multiple nodes but that can be achieved with container orchestration as well.


  • In your example it would use that much and no it can’t be shortcut, that’d be a big security bug and is not intended.

    The reverse proxy is just a piece of software and can be on the same machine as the actual service, but yeah, if you don’t have a public IP at home, you’ll need someone like you described and it will need the traffic.

    I think there’s different software that does hole punching and actually gets you a peer to peer connection but there’s more vpn territory where the vps is just used to find a way between the peers.

    For most use cases, the free traffic is usually enough though.



  • Nextcloud is fine without Anubis since everything is behind a login.

    Yes, you need a reverse proxy. Also you need a public IP which not all ISPs offer. If you have one, you have to forward port 443 to the reverse proxy in your router config. That means someone who tries to connect to your router on port 443 will be forwarded to the reserve proxy who checks which domain was looked for and forwards to the actual Nextcloud.

    You’ll need a domain pointing to your public IP. That IP may change, so you need an automation that updates the DNS records (known as dyndns). When you’re selecting a registrar, look for one that has dyndns support (you can use different nameservers but that’s unnecessary extra steps).




  • The linked Fluxer article was super interesting. If the goals of federation and published posts actually get implemented, that thing is gonna be amazing. I’ll probably try it out.

    The Booklore/orbit drama is weird, and I read about it the same time as I read about calibre adding an AI game to their ebook management tool (wtf). I’d have assumed more sensitive use of AI from book people, if any at all.