Im by no means trying to defend our general reliance on Chinese manufacturing nor attempting to make a case rhat using their abused labor force is fine and good.

I am also very much not in the business of defending the ultra rich mega corpos legitimately exploiting anything and everything they can for profit.

I am only defending what appeaers to be an unfair and unnecessary attack of a persons character. It is true she is using Chinese manufacturing but if her words are to believed at her current scale bringing that to the US is impossible for her. I am not even remotely educated in any of these topics so i can do little more than read the article and respond but assuming her words are true then her actions are understandable.

The title is not original to the article. Claiming she is “exploiting cheap labor” is rather misleading. To quote a section of the article:

The other option, the one Trump wants, is a pipe dream: manufacturing her products in the US. Benike would prefer to manufacture here, too. But a mountain of logistics, near impossibilities, stand in her way.

Food-grade silicone, which she uses for her products, is not available domestically. When she looked into the cost of importing the material when she first started, it was more expensive than importing a finished product, and the prices have gone up since then. Manufacturing facilities in the US with the compression mold machines she needed require much larger runs than she can commit to. The minimum requirements for factories here was 20,000 – in China, she could do a couple thousand at a time.

Are either of those brands designed with the same level of user serviceability in mind?

The main drive for framework is how easy they are to repair or mod along with their varying degrees of modularity (such as their swappable ports).

Because he’s a blog spammer. Sure the question is valid but his “article” is just links to various youtube videos. The blog itself has zero substance.

Not like there’s much to read in the first place.

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Are you using pihole to also create custom local DNS records?

Set up what you want on what you already have and if your workload is more than your hardware can handle then upgrade.

Overall most of what you rattled off isn’t too resource heavy but 12gb of memory isnt exactly a lot and i dont know what your minecraft server will eat up.

Alternatively look up the recommended minimum specs for each of your desired applications and add up the needs.

Additionally if this isnt going to be a headless system and you want a desktop gui that consumes resources as well.

That sounds more or less to be exactly what I’m doing with NPM currently. I don’t see how it’s easier to configure as all I did was fire up the NPM container, log in, and add my host targets.

NPM also handles SSL both standard http verification as well as DNS auth for wildcards.

Whats wrong with NPM?

Its just a computer, nothing more. You would do exactly the same thing as you would on a desktop or vps.

No you do not have to plug in both power cords but if both aren’t plugged in it may blare an alarm. If so plug in the other or just remove the redundant PSU.

+1 for restic. I have additionally started using autorestic with it and have been happy how it operates.

No its Philips. Its odd shape is because its been stripped/rounded/damaged. You’ll probably want to consider replacing it.

Reminds me of a tip for a soldering gun.

Haha I think it’s plenty durable so long as you aren’t dropping it all the time.

The rattle is probably just the side buttons which do have a little wiggle due to the tolerances of the case.

The touch wheel on my was a little loose too which was a know issue. I just put a little piece of double sides tape on the top between it and the case and now it’s all good.

I don’t necessarily expect it to be supported indefinitely but they only just got the hardware into backers hands and are now taking in a lot of feedback so I don’t think it unreasonable to expect some reasonable improvements in the shorter term.

Time will tell though. Personally I’d be quite happy with it after some bug fixes and a few small features. And if worse comes to worse it will become a personal coding project for myself.

Because they wanted to. It’s a passion project meant for certainly not everyone and made by a very small team of people.

Well… I guess advice for such an open ended inquiry is desgin our backup plan first and build around that.

Also decide what level of fault tolerance you want. If you want to be able to survive a disk failure without restoring from a backup then you’ll want at least a RAID1 configuration or similar.

If you do so be sure to test out your planned recovery methods before loading up all your data and thoroughly document your process so that when the worst happens all you need to do is follow your own directions.

The bare minimum is a hard drive and a computer. Unless you have a more specific question I’m not sure how else to answer. I don’t think I fully understand what your concerns are.

A server is quite literally just a computer. Your desires could be serviced by something as simple as a raspi with a USB attached external HDD.

My very first server many years ago was just a desktop chassis with old scrap parts I had lying around. If you don’t have parts on hand you can obviously buy them or if you are unsure about how committed you are to this project just pick up some cheap used system of Craigslist/some online marketplace/eBay/etc.

The above all assumes you are interested or comfortable with setting up the software side of things yourself. A prebuilt NAS device is again nothing more than a computer but among other things will come preloaded with an OS and software catered to fulfilling its role and typically making it highly user friendly to just start rolling with.

If cost savings is key though and you are interested in learning you can also just install Linux on any old box and set it up to do everything and more that a prebuilt NAS can.