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There is an iOS/macOS app called “Pi-hole Remote” that can manage multiple PiHole instances at once. I use that because it will make changes on both instances at once for me.

Other than that, I log in to each device and copy paste.

I’m pretty out of the loop. Did something happen with Twitch?

These contracts do not stipulate reimbursement for lost revenue. The “uptime guarantee” just gets you a partial discount or service refund for the impacted services.

It is on the customer to architect their environment for high availability (use multiple regions or even multiple hyperscalers, depending on the uptime need).

Source: I work at an enterprise that is bound by one of these agreements (although not with AWS).

I’ve tried both Unraid and TrueNAS. While I greatly prefer TrueNAS, Unraid is much easier to set up and get going for beginners. It’s been a while since I’ve set up TrueNAS from scratch, but last I tried, it wasn’t a very beginner friendly experience. If you weren’t already familiar with ZFS, you were in for a pretty difficult time.

I’ve never used your exact setup, but I have had issues with a web server behind a WAF not getting the client IP (all user traffic was shown as the WAF IP). In my case, the WAF was appending the client IP in a header, and I just had to tell web app to use that header as the client IP instead of the actual IP. Again, not sure if this helps since I have never used podman or caddy (this setup was with Wordpress and an Azure Application Gateway) but the same principles might apply.

I previously had a QNAP, and they honestly aren’t much better than Synology. I would definitely go the build your own route. For the OS, I really can’t recommend TrueNAS more. I’ve been using it for years and it is rock solid.

Beautiful photo! I’m going to Japan in October and I am so excited!

They mention in the post that other apps are coming soon. If they start letting you self host Protect, that will be huge. When they killed off Video, the only way to get their cameras to work was to buy their hardware that could run Protect. I was shocked when they allowed you to use 3rd party cameras in Protect.

What’s the difference between the two? Reading the GitHub for meshcore, it sounds exactly like meshtastic. What makes it better?

I moved all of my Docker containers over to TrueNAS apps recently, and it’s been great so far. Alternatively, I think the best option for keeping your compose files and all that would be to upgrade to 25.04 (Fangtooth). Fangtooth lets you deploy containers using compose YAML. Each app has to be in its own YAML which can be a bit of a pain, but you would fully own everything so no need to worry about another rug pull.

Alternatively, I’ve seen some people just install Dockge and run all of their containers inside of that.

I work for a medium size enterprise as a backup architect. All of our backups are crash consistent and we’ve never had an issue.

Windows has an easy way of dealing with this in the form of VSS. As long as the application supports it, VSS can prepare the system and application for a backup, putting it in an application-consistent state before the snapshot is taken. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent for Linux. The best you can do is pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts to put the application/OS in a backup-ready state. Really though, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Unless you are running an in-memory database, you really don’t need to worry about application consistency. If you are running an in-memory database, take database level backups (can also be done with pre-freeze/post-thaw scripts) and back up the backups.

Just remember to test whatever solution you end up going with, and make reminders to frequently re-test your backups. You never know what might change in a year’s time, so re-testing periodically is a good way to make sure everything is still functioning properly and make sure your data is still protected. And testing needs to be more than just making sure the VM powers on. Make sure the application can start up and function properly before calling it a successful test.

I have been using TrueNAS for about 3 years now and couldn’t be happier. It can do all of the backup stuff for you as well. I’m not sure if you would be able to use the key server for booting though, but I believe it would check all the other boxes. I don’t currently run VM’s on it (only docker), so not sure what it can do for VM backups.

Regardless of what you end up going with, I’m curious why you are saying you need to shut down the VM to back it up? I’m not familiar with how you are running the VM so not sure if it’s a limitation of the hypervisor, but I would think as long as you can snapshot the disk, you could just back up the snap. It would be crash-consistent rather than application-consistent, but for a backup scenario that should generally be fine.