i just have top running through ssh on an xterm window.

what is this?

On what hardware do you run 9front?

slackware, freebsd, netbsd

Not sure which ports are required for your usage but maybe cloudflared would work? It works on the free tier as well, you can install cloudflared on your linux/windows server (no BSD support afaik).

Freenom’s domains are pretty unstable, they lost management for .ga domains last year and they often claim others’ free domain when they have high usage.

though if you have unstable network I won’t suggest self hosting fediverse stuff.

Yeah, but I’m wanting to only connect to ‘root DNS’ servers (is that the right term?) instead of servers like NextDNS or Cloudflare. Anyway, my configuration is working now, I should probably document them later…

You’re partially right about self hosting, but it still strips out the user tracking scripts and only provides the pure results, and you can make SearXNG route to Tor…

10 years ago I ran a Debian chroot inside my Android after rooting and that still works, no need to run a KVM (mostly).

IRC is what works for me, but others don’t seem to be, mainly due to inline image previews and easy attachments…