I knew when I asked, someone would just whip out some links and wonder ‘Why the hell didn’t he read this shit right here? Search engines exist!’ LOL I thank you for the spoon feed. So, apparently I do a lot of ‘fun’ stuff.

[Internet high five]

or as we did back in the olden days: ^5

Best thing to do is give it a go and see what shakes out OP. I absolutely love both my Proxmox boxes. In my humble opinion, Proxmox was an easier set up, and the possibilities are endless really. It’s a solid freemium product. Couple it with the extensive Helper Scripts, and Jack’s a doughnut, Bob’s your uncle.

First, they are all solid platforms. Yunohost would be my choice if I were making it again. I don’t exactly know this, but I would think that Yunohost’s app catalog either exceeds or rivals most platforms in this category. They do list broken software separately. I don’t know why, they’ve always done that. I guess it’s for someone who might want to give it a go fixing one. But, their usable app catalog is pretty comprehensive. Both CasaOS and Cosmos have very beautiful UI. Very polished.

Anytime bro. Did you get it going?

It looks like Elvith Ma’for@feddit.org has you headed in the right direction, so I won’t muddle the waters.

I meant to include this in my earlier comment, but Caddy has a built in caddyfile validator:

caddy fmt --overwrite /etc/caddy/Caddyfile
caddy validate --config /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

Comes in very handy.

What does your caddyfile look like? I have a sneaking suspicion that you left the caddyfile as it comes installed, which indeed uses port 80 to deliver the Caddy success test. If you point your browser to the ip of your server, do you see the 'It Worked!" page that Caddy serves up?

sudo nano /etc/caddy/Caddyfile

Don’t sweat the complications. I know it’s frustrating. Full disclosure, it took me a while to ‘get’ Caddy. Once I did tho, it really is easy peasy. I actually found Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust easier to set up. I realize some have ‘concerns’ about Cloudflare, which is understandable.

I’ll have to say that this is about one of the most detailed instructions I’ve seen, replete with copious screenshots. I’m going to have to give it a go just based on that. LOL

The train illustrations are awesome. LOL I have never played OpenTDD before, but at one time I was heavily into Cities: Skylines. Healthchecks.io, from my reading, is pretty cool stuff. I don’t run enough crons to justify all it can do, but still…pretty cool.

I don’t know of any free tiers in the EU, however, very cheap options do exist. Not in the EU, but one of my VPS runs $25 USD a year. It’s a pretty capable little server, and at $25 USD, it’s about as close to free as you going to get. Take a look at https://lowendbox.com/. You might find something poking around there.

Don’t let them give you shit about your ponytail OP. Try again. It’s a learning process. Keep whacking away at it. Success is just a string of failures.

Any advice would be much appreciated. This would be a huge change to the way I’m currently running this thing, but would be a worthwhile upgrade for sure.

If I was standing up a new server, that’s the route I would take. It looks like a very capable piece of open source.

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/

Tape drives are the keytars of the tech world. They seem cool and a pro can really jam with them… but they’re not the most practical and you should really get a guitar or a keyboard until you know what you’re doing.

That made me snort. But you speak the truth. I have a Roland AX-Edge that I bought off a guy who thought it would be a good idea to play. I think he paid like $1200 for it and after the new wore off, he sold it to me for $400, basically brand new.

In this vein, Backblaze Personal unlimited account would be well worth it to me. $8.25 USD ($99/year contract) for unlimited backups. The downside to Backblaze is if you’re pushing large volumes of data, like above 5 TB, it is excruciatingly slow doing a restore online. Luckily, they will sell/rent you a 10 TB drive with your data, shipped to you. After you make the restore/transfer, you can decide to send the drive back for a full refund, or keep it.

I’m somewhat of a chemist too, tho, it was back in the 60s…and in my basement…but yeah.

without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing

I realize lemmy hates AI, but I use Grok a lot to explain commands, command sequences, etc. Those go in my notes as well, after I’ve refined them, and conformed them to my application. Of course, all the precautions one should take with any online tut in place, and pulling knowledge from multiple sources helps verify. Grok helps me out a ton.

If I’m on WIndows, I use MobaXterm. If I’m on Linux, I use tmux.

I’m always excited to try new stuff. You never know. A use case might develop that you didn’t think of.

I use UVR for vocal isolation. It just works, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll check it out. At the worst, I’ll learn something.