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Just bought one a month ago. RPi5 was $80 (8gb ram, $60 for 4gb), case with fan was $5 and USB-C PD supply was $10.

Lowest n100 I see is $150. Still, they do look more beefy and probably worth it for some.

Truth be told, I haven't really considered legality when hosting anything. Most of my stuff is self created with open source software for personal use. I'm going to guess and say all that is good.

The only legally questionable stuff I can think of is sharing public access to licensed software or somesort of copyrighted media downloader. Stay clear of those and you should be good.

There are also legal things such as TOR and, yes sometimes VPN, that can raise eyebrows. While they aren't illegal, many sites and services block them. I ran a TOR node for a few days, and within a week it seemed like 1/4 of the internet blacklisted me. Wasn't really fun. Had to change my MAC address and snag a new IP address from my ISP.

I don't really open my servers to non-family and friends. I don't want to spend the time being a babysitter for 20 sites. If that's a concern, perhaps rethink who you give access to.

Trust your gut. You kinda know if you're walking a line.

Good luck!

I thought it was a funny image but the more I zoomed in, the more real it became and the sadder I got. If there were an abandoned parking garage in my city, that's what it would be.

Just looked them up, and found products 2x my Pi 5. Maybe there are sales out there?

Perhaps you're searching the wrong keywords. I think you may find more options for open source marketing. After all, what you want is an Ad campaign, just for political action.

I've created WordPress sites in the past and it can do most of your requests with a dozen plugins, but I consider it nagware and there are security concerns the more extras you add.

2210 Mbps down, 3360Mbps up.

Not the full 10Gbps, but with firewall/security turned on, it still maxes out most of the family's computers's capabilities.

As for VPN, big drop in speed because of encryption, and my VPN is on an older server. Truth be told, I've never run a speed test over it, only HTTPS.

You're kinda in a self hosting community, so I'll start off with a Raspberry Pi, docker, and your ISP. Not what you requested, I know.

That said, I do also pay for hosting for my other sites that need a little more 24/7 uptime security. I use namecheap since they were super helpful and awesome when I got fed up with my other host back in 2007 I think. Buuuut the bigger they got, the more clunky the service. I don't really recommend them for business, but hobbyist projects are still ok in my books. They totally botched email though; their servers are on so many blacklists.

I run mine behind a reverse proxy too and had to do that as well. Seems like a common thing there should be a system config for.

Haha! I feel like I got a little roasted and have some learning to do, but this hobby is all good fun.

I'm definitely not hating on docker. I use it for dozens of containers across several machines and love how easy it is, and even some of the fights we've had. If that works for people's needs, awesome!

I really wish I remembered what the error was. It's been bugging me all day. Maybe it's not a thing anymore.

I'm with you on that. There are some gems on streaming sites still, but lots of half baked content to sift through.

I've actually started buying DVDs again to add to a plex archive. A lot of not-current shows and movies are in my budget and I don't have to worry about availability. I will say Plex tells me what service has what content in my watchlist which is nice, but doesn't work for everything.

My SO and I were searching for a show and just gave up; too much of a hassle. Downloading would have been easy if we wanted, but after doing the searching dance, we just didn't care anymore and threw on a show we know and enjoy.

It was many, many years ago, but if I recall some of the add-ons or installations didn't work in the docker version. I started with docker on a Synology server, but I gave up on the whole project for a year until I found a Pi in a drawer I forgot I had.

HAOS just feels more "complete" to me.

That's what home assistant is built to do. There is a docker version, but I hit limits pretty quick and fired up an old raspberry pi running HomeassistantOS

One app, many devices & brands, custom interfaces for each member.