Have you ever seen how long it takes for a tree to grow?

Move away from port 22, and 90% vanishes. Move it up to a port in the five digit range, and you will rarely see them.

Those Dell fans were never built to be quiet. And they are also not built to be replaced by any quiet fans.

While yes, there is a reason why I have retired the Dell server I had for a normal desktop PC. The server was so loud, I could hear it two stairs and two closed doors away.

My largest file transfer I have done via USB disk. You simply don’t transfer multiple terabytes over the net.

I use my former PC as the home server. It is probably 10+ years old, has no M2 slot or something, but an SSD for the OS. More than big and fast enough for all my needs: File service (Samba), Web service (apache2), Wiki service (mediawiki), Database (MySQL), Calendar service (Radicale), Project service (Subversion), and probably some others I forgot. All of it running on Ubuntu Server, aministrated by WebMin.

The only investment I did when I turned this into a server was that I put 2x8TB in it as a RAID for bulk storage - I dump the family PCs backups on that machine, too.

No docker. Plain executable.

You need this for your family, and not hundreds of people? No crazy, outlandish usage requirements?

Then basically any PC will do.

I do regularly have issues with radicale, for years now. One is that it does not work properly after boot. I have to SSH in, kill the radicale process, and restart it.

What the heck are you self-hosting that anything beyond 64G is even taken into account?

Interesting read. My wife and I both have A4s, bought at the same day in the same shop. Her phone does not really fast charge anymore, but my still seems to do it. And even more surprising, mine went from “battery holds one and maybe a half day at normal use” to “battery works for two days again at normal use”.

My coworker and his wife had the bad A4s (bought earlier than ours), and were offered the $50 refund.

My home server runs on an old desktop PC, bought at a discounter. But as we have bought several identical ones, we have both parts to upgrade them (RAM!) as well as organ donors for everything else.

You don’t own anything that is not on your own system and/or without any DRM.

Well, I think it is necessary if you have mobile devices. Anything nailed down should be connected by wire, but if it is mobile, it should get the connection. Especially if the cell phone link is not that good inside the house.

MAC whitelist.

I know that this would be the most secure way. But I seriously doubt that this level is necessary in a normal home network.

That’s what MAC whitelists are for. Your DHCP server should be able to handle this.

Identify your friendly devices and give them one setting with everything (full subnet and correct default GW). Identfy your IoT devices, and give them another (full, or specially limited subnet mask, and fake default GW, maybe a different nameserver, too). Anything else is guest and gets a very limited subnet mask and a working default GW.

I’m pretty sure I don’t do this ;-) I know how routing works.

Then why don’t you ask the people who do this?

But you don’t need several LANs for this. This can easily done with proper routing. A can access internet and internal network addresses. B can only access internet, and C can only reach internal addresses.