I wouldn’t mess with react or other client side bling for this. Just keep it traditional. There are very light weight forum and wiki systems out there. Maybe Fossil ( fossil-scm.org ) could be restyled without too much pain. It uses about 2MB of ram.

It’ll be public

Probably not a good idea to publicize the contents of your Plex server. And anyway, why not just use a forum or wiki?

bunny.net

That is interesting, the least you can pay for a sim here is about 2.5 USD/mo as far as I can tell. A phone number by itself is about 1 USD/mo. Vitelity no longer seems to show prices on its public site, but Twilio has NL mobile numbers for 6 USD/mo which seems pretty high to me: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/voice/pricing/nl

SMS for 2fa is deprecated here because of insecurity and TOTP is generally preferable. Can you use that instead?

I understand about DIY and am interested to hear how this goes for you. I might like to try it myself.

I see, yeah, reasonable point about some services not liking hosted phone numbers. I haven’t had serious problems with that, but it is a thing.

If you can use those sims in mobile phones then I’d call them mobile plans. Can I ask what country you are in? Here in the US, mobile service costs a lot more. I have been getting SIP service from vitelity.net but twilio.com and voip.ms are better known here. I don’t know about jmp.chat.

I haven’t had trouble using a hosted number for banking and it feels better to me than using a mobile number. The cheap mobile providers (MVNO’s) I use here are sketchy, mobile numbers change all the time, etc. I use a VoIP number as my permanent stable number and forward it to my mobile. So if I switch mobiles, I just change the forwarding. In theory you can port phone numbers between carriers but I’ve had significant hassle doing that. That’s just here though. It may be different where you are.

There’s a device called cell2jack that converts your mobile phone to a pseudo landline. It talks to the cell phone by Bluetooth and has an rj11 port that you plug a landline phone into.

I wonder if one can do similar with software on a raspberry pi. That is, use Bluetooth and a mobile phone instead of that board. It’s clunkier but everyone has old phones around, that have the right bands etc. the Pi software could even create a listener port that you can connect to with a SIP client.

Is there a reason you don’t want to just use a SIP service by the way? It would certainly be cheaper than that board plus a mobile plan.

That’s a nice little board! Web search SIM7600X finds various code you can use. Idk if asterisk can support it directly though.

Another possibility might be to use a consumer mobile phone I guess.

I wonder if there might be a 5g version of the board sometime.

Mine is not great but is ok. Main special thing I did was put it on a vps very close to home, for short ping time. That was to get lower latency voice chat with nextcloud talk, but I haven’t been using that at all.

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PiKVM isn’t the board I was thinking of, but same idea, and maybe even better.

On actual server motherboards (as opposed to repurposed home PC’s) there is sometimes a special KVM like interface (keyboard/video/mouse, not the VM hypervisor) so you can connect to it with VNC and have the equivalent of local access. This is called IDRAC on Dell servers and other vendors have something similar.

On a home PC, hmm, you might be able to set up some kind of remote power cycle and serial console connection, using a second computer (Raspberry Pi or the like). I’m unfamiliar with Intel AMT that you linked to, but it seems like another idea.

I do remember hearing of a DRAC-like board for PC’s but the name of it escapes me right now.

At the end of the day, if you want a long running server, you probably should host it in a data center, maybe with failover and other HA provisions. Home environments are a pain to set up for that. If your computer goes offline and you can’t reach it, how do you even know that your home isn’t having a power outage? Home ISP’s are flaky too, so maybe you want a backup route over mobile data, etc. Yes you can make workarounds for everything but it amounts to turning your home into a crappy low capacity data center.

Looks like someone pwned your box and installed a ddos bot on it?

As I remember, setting it up was kind of a pain, but once runnnig it hasn’t neded attention. I don’t use the fancy apps. Also, by now there might be an apt package or docker container or something of that sort. I haven’t used their fancy apps much. My main use of it is to upload photos from my phone so I can access them from other devices.

Yeah that’s more of an archive than a backup scenario. I have a small self hosted Nextcloud that I use for stuff like that. For a few TB, you might consider Hetzner Storage Cloud which is really Nextcloud. It is backed up daily which is a help.

I use Borg Backup to a Hetzner storage box but doing the same thing to a disk array would work fine. How much data are you talking about? What is the usage picture? Backup and archiving are really not the same thing.

Like everyone else I’d be skeptical of used disks. I’d also go for a larger array than 4 drives to have less of it redundant. Like 6+2 or 5+3 instead of 2+2.

You don’t say what the capacity is or how old they are. They might not be worth using.

I’ve never done it that way and don’t see the benefit. Am I missing something? Of course for a testing setup just do something easy. But don’t store any sensitive data under a weak key, ever.

Use cryptsetup and it should handle key creation for you. I’ve never heard this but about key revision. How are you supposed to use the disk if the key is revoked?

Hdd’s have bad block remapping sort of like ssd’s, so the same issues apply to both types of media.

I think bunny.net has something like that. Not self hosted but still much less distasteful than the big companies imho.