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Nah not grumpy just good additional advice. Thanks for taking the time to add to the conversation

Initial self hosting should be non critical for yourself only for the reasons you mention. After you have worked out kinks and learned more about it all you can start using software for more critical tasks. I still don't use my self hosting for anything apart from myself (except jellyfin for family) because I don't need the pressure of availability :)

This was just posted https://itsfoss.com/self-hosting-starting-projects/

The internet being what it is has there been any negative or inappropriate images or text? Because if not, my faith in the interwebs will slowly heal

Picard is great. I find that beets is more accurate in some cases. Yymv so worth giving them both a try. Picard is a lot easier to use and doesn't maintain it's own library index which has its pros and cons.

vaccines also. nobody is getting sick so vaccines must be unneccessary

Always going to throw https://charm.land/blog/self-hosted-soft-serve/ into the mix for the questions. Works great, supports LFS, configurable and admon over SSH, multi user support. All from a CLI and easy to setup

Maybe I am missing something but how does it handle snapshots?

I use rsync all the time but only for moving data around effectively. But not for backups as it doesn't (AFAIK) hanld snapshots

I have something like this with tail scale. My homeserver has a tail scale docker as well as a docker tail scale. The docker tailscale advertises itself as an exit node. The tailscale docker is gluetunned to an extern wireguard server (your mullvad for example) Now I can connect to my home net with tailscale and toggle the exit node on and off. By adding a different tailscale container with a different wire guard exit you could just toggle the exit node like that.

Seeing as you are using mullvad you could also just pay the monthly sub to tailscale and they connect your tailnet directly to mullvad

I was in a similar boat. Wanted a simple static site generator with little to no config. I found https://github.com/rochacbruno/marmite and am happy with it

Can recommend Immich for the Photo gallery and sharing option.

Can recommend Navidrome for music.

I use it for my personal projects and its perfectly usuable. If you want people to contribute you'll just have to do it the old fashioned email patch way. You can use RSA keys but it requires a little fiddling. I've used them but needed to massage something. Now I just use ed keys. The SSH ui is perfectly fine. Your repos are stored as bare repos on the server in the configured directory. So they are easily backed up as regular files. It also supporta LFS.

Let me knownif you have any other questions

Many excellent replies. Just want to add https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve as an option