The VPS is required specially if you, like me, are behind CG-NAT with no way to escape from it. Using a VPS (or any other kind of server with a public IP). Using a VPS is the cheapest option…

residential IPs can be blocked for ports like 80, 443, 22 and the email ports in general (25, etc), using a non-residential IP could give a better experience. Moreover, even if not behind CG-NAT, having a public static and not-changing IP is a good advantage.

Everything is hosted locally! the VPS is only a tunnel between internet and the home server.

I have documented my journey here: https://wiki.gardiol.org/

On short, rent a vps and setup wireguard, then start self hosting everithing you can put yours hands on!!

Hey, you forget about Gentoo Linux!

The real distro for newbies… (Provided the newbies are expert cs graduated and crazy nerds…)

All depends on what a beginner is… Not all beginners are tech illiterates or people who only want to use office.

Daily toward all my three locations:

• local on the server
• in-house but on a different device
• offsite

But not all three destinations backup the same amount of data due to storage limitations.

1 backup on a local, Independence disk. 1 backup on a HDD connected to an OpenWRT router at the other end of the house 1 backup on my remote vps.

Restic+backrest

Sftp for remote endpoint

I use and love nginx.

Maybe a bit more old fashioned than more modern solutions, but steady solid and versatile. I use it as reverse proxy ad well as proxy for php stuff and more.

Working on testing stalwart… And will need to organize and document properly my various nft rules and routing tables, because its slightly getting out of hand…

Thanks for the fun read! You made my day.

And in a lifetime on linux I never noticed the Ctrl+y stuff.

A forum is good for searches. Social media is good for blind repost and “me me me” posting.

That’s life

So sad we abandoned the forum approach.

After 20+ years of hosting my email in a similar way (postfix…) I decoded to explore the “all in ones” like stalwart and mailcow.

Stalwart looks promising because its a new approach, supposedly more streamlined and efficient. Will post back in a few months.

I am not worried about stalwart dual license, the overall feeling seems to be of trust.

I have started testing out stalwart, seems pretty nice, bit way too early to give you reasonable feedback.

If you are looking for an innovative approach to email server stalwart is the new boss in town.

If you want proven and stable, mailcow might be your easy choice.

Both can be deployed with containers, I did with podman.

I don’t see anything wrong here. Ram is supposed to be always as full as possible.

What is not needed by running programs should be full of disk pages cached. A system with lots of free ram is oversized or abnormal.

Also, today’s kernels require swap space. On disk is a must for a server, and maybe consider even zram.

Having swap will allow the kernel to organize it’s memory usage even better.

Don’t over think ram as that is a field in which you will be wrong and the kernel will be right 99%.

Yes!

That’s it…

How did I forgot about that?

I assumed it was already set…

Need to double check all my setup scripts tomorrow…

Thanks!

Interesting enough…

tcpdump -i wg0 
21:49:49.604220 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 1, length 64
21:49:49.638242 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 1, length 64
21:49:50.615200 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 2, length 64
21:49:50.648361 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 2, length 64
21:49:51.628391 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 3, length 64
21:49:51.673502 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 3, length 64
21:49:52.641711 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 4, length 64
21:49:52.673321 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 4, length 64
21:49:53.655076 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 5, length 64
21:49:53.695391 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 5, length 64

while on the other console, as user 1070:

 ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.

just gets stuck there…

This is baffling!

(stopping the ping also stop the prints in the tcpdump)

ip r add 10.0.0.2/32 dev wg0 table 1070

All the IPs behind wg0 can be pinged by user 1070 without issue, but nothing else

They do, check fittrackee they have a python sync to garmin, I use it

Does it integrate with Garmin as well?

… Or you learn how to download, configure, build and deploy your kernel build…

Can be fun!

Ah, maybe will upload some.

I wrote my minimal HTML+CSS dashboard with a touch of JavaScript and use it with pride.

Its blazing fast and quite customizable and no bells and whistles.

Here: https://github.com/gardiol/dashboard

You configure it with a touch of json.