No idea. I’ve only changed brushes in steering pumps for ships. I’ve encountered pumps older than myself, and they still work fine as long as the brushes are changed from time to time.

Carbon brushes, most likely. They wear down over time.

I’m far from an expert, but I’ve been using Hetzner for close to 20 years at this point. Both their VPSes and the actual rent-a-server.

I skimmed the article and I didn’t notice anything blatantly bad in the approach. So they have my approval.

+1 for rdiff-backup. Been using it for 20 years or so, and I love it.

I’m nordic and I didn’t know either.

But yes, we all do this every day all day, recreationally. I just didn’t know the name.

To be fair, the github.cum/author/project/releases subsection of a isn’t exactly the first thing that you find, nor is there a very visible link that stands out.

I must’ve stumbled across it at some point as I know of its existence, but I don’t know how to get there so I usually just manually add it to the URL.

By living in the middle of fucking nowhere. I haven’t locked my front door in over a year.

Why not go truly selfhosted and build your own? Any PC + JBOD + ZFS, then add whichever services you need. NFS or SMB should get you a long way.

Plenty of guides out there on how to achieve this.

I think I have a 20$ bill in my stash’o’misc-foreign-jimjams-I’ve-accumulated-on-my-travels. But given the current state of the US, I guess a terminally online scandinavian dork owning the country isn’t so bad in comparison.

I promise I’ll be less corrupt than most administration’s. I’ll probably just collect dues in the form of semi-monthly street tacos at TJ Birria Y Mas down in Stafford, Houston TX.

And maybe a crate of Blue Moon. Other than that, keep calm and carry on, underlings.

Oh, and you can refer to me as King, as 50% of the populace seems to be into that these days. But I don’t think the same 50% would be very happy with the king’s decrees.

I started hosting stuff before containers were common, so I got used to doing it the old fashioned way and making sure everything played nice with each other.

Beyond that, it’s mostly that I’m not very used to containers.

Hva faen, Danmark? Skjerpings!

That’s a sheep larva. Nurture it and you will soon have unlimited access to wool.

In fact, I’m pretty sure I saw Luigi Mangione outside my local grocery store roughly halfway around the world when the alleged killing happened.

I’m sure his neck turned hollow at one point

Hollow Point USA

I had to Google what they are. TIL.

Pears - > Prayers, I guess, but can someone explain to me what those nuggety things are?

UPDATE: TIL I learned of tater tots. Nobody tell Samwise.

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-says-gun-deaths-worth-it-2nd-amendment-1793113

Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment

Are you able to ask your ISP customer service to set up port forwarding for you?

At minimal you want HTTP (Port 80) but you probably want HTTPS (443) as well. If you’re hosting DNS as well you will need port 53 too.

Have those ports routed to the “inside” IP of the machine you want to use, and the rest of it is basically just setting up the webserver (and possibly DNS) to serve your domain.

NB: While on the phone with your ISP, ask them what the DHCP lease time is. Ideally you want a static IP for your setup.

Ok, so I must’ve misunderstood the question, because to me it seems OP already has all the necessary ingredients to bake this dish. And yet, the vast majority of comments recommend various 3rd party services which is the complete opposite of selhosting.
Fire up nginx/apache2, and all good, no? What am I missing?