Why oh why are streaming platforms still using rtmp in 2025 when it was stopped being developed pretty much in 2009? Why oh why don’t they use something like SRT that has packet resending, can negotiate bit rates and adjust and use better codecs than x264 which is awful…

I forgot duckdns still exists to be fair

Funkwhale is OK, use it here but served via Yunohost cos I is lazy

Loads of S3 suppliers out there but a lot depends on your region and how much you dislike certain corps. I mean AWS is the daddy of S3 but I doubt you would go down that route unless your are criminally insane like Uncle Fester

Whilst I do like Nextcloud it is getting a super bloated thing these days and performance is struggling as a result. Still the best for me right now, but I might change in the future if they continue to fatten it up for slaughter!

Cloudflare tunnels so yes it does, as long as you do it right.

Using Cloudflare so they aren’t

I run several different ones, Debian is the most, Ubuntu server runs a few and I have a couple of truenas scale instances simply because they have run truenas for years and work well. One is local network only, another is available but is used for storage and storage alone via s3/minio and sftp and duplicati

tailscale will tunnel through and you can set it to pass through https. Lots of different ways to achieve this, as long as you have control over the dns and are able to set https up it will work. This is why for me I still use cloudflare, you can even setup a subdomain through their tunnels and they act as a cdn. For example, I run a linkstack instance, send instance and much more

https://linkstack.relayeasy.com/@3dcadmin

oh yeah - but I don’t recommend anyone really self host an smtp server… many many issues right there especially as most isps block the ports required and the IP addresses are often blocked as well. Just use a service and don’t spam and all should be well (so don’t get sending newsletter emails all the time)

chance you take with pretty much everything you don’t control. I do use as much as I can to protect emails (not that much really)

I get that… fo me though as I have been using Cloudflare for many years I can’t see any reason to change yet. That of course may change

I run an smtp relay exactly for that kind of stuff with emails. Clients still like wordpress and this is easy to use, many other will accept an smtp relay/service like say gmail (the first one I could think of)

Personally I would look at using a tunnel, something like Cloudflare tunnels (easy to setup, sorts dns out) but many here dislike Cloudflare for a lot of reasons. However the free plan allows you to get started, easily, and then once you are started and serving your blog you can look into other solutions, or failing that stay on Cloudflare. Other tunnels exist but if you have a domain, using cloudflare is the easiest imho to get started

Not necessarily, Cloudflare tunnels, headscale/tailscale will sort that issue out amongst several other ways

The controller is the built in Pi controller in the SoC - the hat just sorts out the logic to route the 5 sata ports

It isn’t that limited, but for zfs arm seems to perform much worse. Plus you often don’t get a full idea of true system load. the biggest limitation is the io, it is very bad for 5 drives in zfs raidz1. the data is distributed across all 5 drives with parity as well. the pi can only do around 500 meg transfers for an nvme drive whilst many other platforms will see 3000 meg, that is why it suffers so much in this case as that 500 meg is across 5 drives. tops you’d get is 10 meg transfer I reckon and that is roughly what you are seeing. you’d be better off with 3 larger drives in raidz1

this is the limits of a slow interface and 5 drives. See my other reply to enable faster pci speeds. because of how zfs works 5 drives is slower than 3, takes more cache and write speeds especially will be slower, quite a lot slower. with 5 drives and 16gb you can easily have a zfs cache of 12 gigs to help it along, i guess this is why you are getting large gaps between writes. as someone else said a pi doesn’t do well in this case but I reckon you can improve it. however as also said it is never going to be a speedy solution. secure and safe for data but not fast

A Pi with a hat and 5 sata drives isn’t ever going to perform very well with zfs in raid z1. cpu limited, io limited possibly even ram limited quite quickly. I love zfs but it a bit of a performance hog, though pretty bulletproof if setup correctly! the hat will be through a pci x1 interface, so at least set the pci to gen3 speeds. Jeff tells you about it here

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/forcing-pci-express-gen-30-speeds-on-pi-5

If you want to remove the complexity and AI fedica is your best bet…