Cancuck here. I’ve moved all my services out of the US if possible. Moved almost everything to a dedicated server at OVH BHS and a VPS at Servarica. The only service I’ve kept with a US company is my SMTP relay. Can’t go wrong with MXroute and it’s not some big company mining all your emails as they go through. Plus if I have something sensitive to send I use PGP or use my self hosted Matrix and message it to the person.

Freshrss and Capy Reader for android app.

My current project is email. Setting up Mailcow and moving my domains over to VMs on a OVH KS-3 server right here in Canada. I’m sick of depending on cloud email providers and want more control of my data. Also getting Addy.io setup to move my aliases over from SimpleLogin. End game is to dump Proton and go all selfhosted for email and Mullvad for VPN. For Mullvad I found that you can buy a 6 or 12 month gift card vouncher on Amazon and it works out to being less than paying Mullvad directly per month.

Self hosted ntfy and mailrise. Mailrise is a wrapper for apprise that let’s you send emails to it and in turn converts the email to the desired push alert.

For password resets or account creation welcome emails I’d use a SMTP service. I use SMTP2GO for those. Free plan is something 1000 emails a month. I’ve been using them for a year and think I’ve sent maybe 5 or 10 emails.

I use Proxmox Backup Server for my backups. Everything backups to 1 system at home. I then sync the data store to a little NAS I have at a family members house across town and also to a cheap storage VPS on the other side of the country. I also do a manual sync of the data store to a single external drive that I manually connect and disconnect.

None of my data hoarding files are backed up as that would cost way too much. That could change if I ever find a killer deal on an LTO8 or better drive and tapes.

I know that Hetzner has some decently priced Storage Boxes that you can mount using rclone and then backup to. Keep in mind that latency will be a factor so it could be slow.

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I manage all my certs using Cert Warden which has a dashboard that displays the expiry date. It does lack alerting, so I use Uptime-kuma to monitor the expiry dates of the certs. So not a big loss for me.

You can use any domain you like. I personally have an actual domain that I only use inside my network. This way I can get SSL certs from Let’s Encrypt using the DNS challenge which doesn’t require any ports being opened. You can use self signed certs but I would strongly suggest using certs from the likes of Let’s Encrypt.

Here are 2 pages on this subject

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Private-CA-and-self-signed-certs-that-work-with-Chrome

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Enabling-HTTPS

vaultwarden, jellyfin, freshrss, nextcloud, and wireguard

Ah. Yeah I’m the only one using my instance. Haven’t had that issue.

Once piped stops working for me YouTube is dead to me. I had to load up a video at work the other day using the YouTube website and holy crap is it naaty looking these days. Can’t use any browser extensions at work so ads and crap everywhere.

What features aren’t working in Piped?

I have a selfhosted Piped instance and use it daily without issue in Firefox and LibreTube on Android.