MangoPenguin

You start the backup, db is backed up, now image assets are being copied. That could take an hour.

For the initial backup maybe, but subsequent incrementals should only take a minute or two.

I don't bother stopping services, it's too time intensive to deal with setting that up.

I've yet to meet any service that can't recover smoothly from a kill -9 equivalent, any that did sure wouldn't be in my list of stuff I run anymore.

Can't say I've ever had issues, but PeaZip is good and integrates nicely.

Backblaze B2 has the option: https://www.backblaze.com/docs/cloud-storage-object-lock

Cheap storage too.

Windows comes with pretty good tools for these already.

1. Game Bar can do this and is built in, or ShareX for short clips

2. Snipping tool is pretty full featured and built in. ShareX is also good.

3. Windows handles ZIP natively.

They have proprietary motherboard and psu, so I'd just look at doing a full diy build maybe.

Oh for sure it made sense back in the HDD days, but with NVMe SSDs it's not needed for most people anymore.

Dell/HP SFF? 7th-9th gen CPUs, super cheap, quiet, should idle at 10-15W.

Only issue is 4x 3.5" drives for sure won't fit, you need a pretty unique case to do that in mini-ITX size I think

Not sure which ones have NVMe slots, would have to research that.

I've gotta ask, why RAID 0? I can't think of a use case for that outside of very specific high IO applications in a server farm or something.

Many DNS providers have an API and are supported by various dynamicDNS clients. I use Cloudflare and the built in client on my Opnsense router.

OpenWRT should have a client too that supports a bunch of services.

It just works and it's in every distros default repo, it's pretty easy to set up and can be a webserver for static files, PHP sites, etc.. It can be a reverse proxy for HTTP(s) traffic or just forward TCP/UDP.

There's also endless documentation out there for how to do something in nginx.

HAProxy is a nightmare to use in my experience. It just feels so clunky and old.

Caddy is nice, but downloading and updating it is a pain because you need modules that aren't included in the repo version.

Have you tried the IP of the host? IIRC that should work.

You could, but it's easier to just disable the map feature in Immich if you don't want to use it.