Yeah, well .world is full of neoliberal idiot mods and admins, who have about as much consistency and transparency with their rules as twitch admins, all while being packed into the poor hygiene and body odor of Reddit mods.

Ah, you should perhaps look into using Cloudflare or a similar service. Not for the certificate, but because if somebody took a dislike to your instance, they could easily DDoS you off the internet. The decade long certificate is just icing on the top.

Why would you be using a cloudflare tunnel to stream media? You can do that just fine using any reverse proxy.

Are you using cloudflare to proxy the server? If so, just download a 10-year certificate and don’t worry about renewing short term ones.

I mean, I’ve never been with a woman who lasted that long either. My wife usually climaxes a few times in that span of time. That’s a respectable amount of time for the main event, but it should be padded on each side by foreplay and cuddling.

If you’re self-hosting something for your own use, there’s nothing better than the dollar .xyz domains, as that’s literally what they were priced like that for. Dunno if I would use them for public services, though.

Nice try, FBI.

Unraid absolutely is a backup. That’s the whole point of the OS. And furthermore , the backup can be backed up at any time and stored on another device, allowing you to restore the entire OS and its configuration. And by “lose the entire device”, I’m assuming you mean the OS is corrupted. At that point, you simply burn a new USB and reconnect the drives, or move them to any other system running Unraid.

Patience, most of all.

Also, backups and notes. The solution you use to host might take care of the backups. For example, I use Unraid, so if any drive fails the system can simulate the data on that drive until I can get it shut down to replace it, and then recreate the data on the new drive.

As for notes, those are important so that you can always know what you’ve done, and what you need to do. That way, if you ever have to do it again, say if you’re setting up another server or replacing one that failed, you know the steps you took to get it set up exactly how you like. It’s also handy because you’ll be doing things like assigning services to ports, and you’ll probably at some point want to know what services are on what ports without going through and checking each one. Things like that are handy things to stick in notes.

Other than that, you don’t need a lot of skills to set something like a home server up. You just need to read the documentation for each service you’re planning to use, and get familiar with how it works.