Fabric with some performance-enhancing mods is a great choice as well, yes! I’ve been wanting to test it on my server for a while now, just haven’t got around to it yet.
Paper changes some of the more quirky vanilla redstone behavior, although - again - it’s very configurable so some of that original behavior can be restored.
I’d mostly base it on which plugin/mod ecosystem you prefer/require.
World simulation (ticks) is single-threaded, but things like world generation are multithreaded. I’d recommend Paper as server software as it’s more performant out of the box (vs. vanilla) and configurable (ex. how many threads world generation is allowed to use).
If you host multiple worlds I recommend spinning up a Paper instance for each world separately and connect them with Velocity.
Ryzen 7000 should have better single-threaded performance than your i5-9500 but as it’s a VM ymmv depending on whether Sparked Host overprovisions their machines.
Couple of years, yeah.
They run their own registry at lscr.io. You can essentially prefix all your existing linuxserver image names with lscr.io/ to pull them from there instead.
YouTube is by far the slowest website I visit, it’s so bloated.
I am SCP-426, your toaster.
Bitwarden keeps working just fine.
There is no definitive roadmap.
That’s so stupid, also because they have fixes for Zen and Zen 2 based Epyc CPUs available.
Intel vs. AMD isn’t “bad guys” vs. “good guys”. Either company will take every opportunity to screw their customers over. Sure, “don’t buy Intel” holds true for 13th and 14th gen Core CPUs specifically, but other than that it’s more of a pick your poison.
Like others said an Intel CPU with iGPU, alternatively the cheapest Intel Arc GPU (A380?) supports the latest spec of Intel QSV as well.
I also recommend a stable/LTS distro like Debian or AlmaLinux (or other RHEL-based distros). Or just keep using Ubuntu Server LTS.
The OS packages being hopelessly outdated doesn’t really matter when you’re running most services inside containers.
Couldn’t agree more. Wireguard isn’t really hard once you understand the basics.
As others said, “Websocket Support” enables support for them and is required for some applications. “Cache Assets” caches (likely static) assets in the proxy so they don’t have to be loaded from the backend service - I’d leave this disabled unless the backend service is hosted on another network entirely, and even then only enable it if you know the implications. “Block Common Exploits” is a very primitive filter against SQL injection (and similar) attacks. It also blocks some user agents. I wouldn’t enable it as it won’t do much to block a dedicated attacker and some filters may falsely trigger in edge cases, causing errors.
I backup my /home folder on my PC to my NAS using restic (used to use borg, but restic is more flexible). I backup somewhat important data to an external SSD on a weekly basis and very important data to cloud storage on a nightly basis. I don’t backup my *arr media at all (unless you count the automated snapshots on my NAS), as it’s not really important to me and can simply be redownloaded in most cases.
So I don’t and wouldn’t apply the 321 rule to all data as it’s simply too expensive for the amount of data I have and it’d take months to upload with my non-fiber internet connection. But you should definitely apply it to data that’s important to you.
What do you want to do with this workspace? Are you looking for a VNC controlled Linux desktop environment? Or a “codespace” with an editor and a terminal in the browser? Or an office suite? Or…?
Your Postgres and/or MariaDB is probably configured to take as much RAM as it can get. It shouldn’t use that much with the light workloads you’re likely to have.
Modem for what type of internet connection?
I second that. Their cloud servers/VMs are pretty fast (the hosts don’t seem overprovisioned) and even their dedicated servers are cheap for what you get. I can also recommend their server auction page.
Use Wireguard instead of OpenVPN.
Same. It’s pretty cheap, comes with unlimited free traffic and is just simple to use. Supports many ways to access it, including BorgBackup.