Don’t host your own email server.

Just trust me.

I FOUND THE ULTIMATE REPLACEMENT.

(Offers basically no solid reasons as to why it is better then Nextcloud).

“mimimi chinese application” LOL

Meanwhile, very top of the githubrepo:

中文版本

OP, are you simping for a random chinese github repo?

How are you supposed to secure something that you don’t understand?

Personally, when I used to route my home services through a VPS- I used a simple VPN tunnel from my VPS to my home network, which my home router would establish (dynamic IP).

From there, my firewall dictated what was actually allowed to enter through the tunnel… and the reverse proxy, did its thing.

Why?

Because I picked up a lifetime pass over 10 years ago, long before Jellyfin/Emby was even heard of.

Back then, it worked perfectly fine, and now it works, perfectly fine.

It has a good app on my Rokus/Shields. It just works.

When, it stops working, or they pull something stupid, I have Jellyfin already ready to go.

Until then though, plex reigns king. (Also, I like its interface more then Jellyfin)

I am still a huge fan of Blue Iris.

Yup. It has a price tag. But, in terms of NVR, there isn’t another comparable option, for the amount of features it includes.

And- its extremely flexible. If you don’t want to transcode, it defaults to direct to disk encoding. If you slap in a GPU, or have intel quick sync, it is happy to use it.

If you want object detection, codeproject.ai integrates flawlessly with it, and also works with either CPU/GPU algorithms, or can use a coral TPU.

Normally- I recommend opensource projects- but, Blue Iris is rock solid. Its only real downside, is that it only runs on a windows box. But, there is a docker container which supposedly works for it too.

A mini self-hosted cloudflare… you mean, like building a reverse proxy? If so… we already have treafik, nginx, haproxy, etc…

Self-hosted, ruins the reason I use cloudflare, completely.

I use cloudflare, because…

1. DDOS / Attack protection. The bandwidth hits their servers, and not mine. You CANNOT SELF HOST ddos protection, unless you have a MASSIVE amount of bandwidth. Otherwise, it just overwhelms your internet connection. It doesn’t matter if the traffic is blocked. It still fills your pipe.
2. Hiding my private IP / handling my dynamic IP.
3. Processing my domain’s SMTP. You don’t want to handle email at your home IP… its likely blacklisted from major providers.

I mean… I use xtremeownage.com

But, ya know… I own it. Although, I use a few subdomains for my home-network, with a split-horizon DNS setup.