I used to use traefik back when it was new and less complex and the 2.0 complexity forced my hand to drop it for my homelab.

Duckduckgo or SearX

The impetus to pay once is supporting great Foss software. I personally think a donation model works for me but I don’t research human behaviour or marketing either.

How is it “fake Foss” when you can just download and run the code without paywalled features and not spending anything.

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Nooblandia

No need to update unless they’re is a feature or security patch.

Updating to latest could result in not knowing your version in case of recovery or have an exploit pushed.

Namesilo, cheap and never had issues

Can be ott yeah. I set mine up to understand how it all works and just kept things going.

No love for kubernetes?

What are you even claiming? Billing is the same ease VM or container.

Cgroups became a thing in 2004 and then Google and Amazon started container offerings in 2008.

And you don’t even need docker there are plenty of alternative engines.

I’d like to point out this is a hot take.

Enterprise infrastructure has been moving to containers for years because of scale and redundancy. Spinning up new VMs for every app failover is bloat and wasteful if it is able to be put in a container.

To really use them well, like everything in IT, understanding the underlying tech can be essential.

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Immich-go is stupid easy.

Just dump all your takeout zips in the same folder as immich-go and run the import. Lmk if you need help.

It ingested 60+ zips with 100gb of photos when I used it.

Unifi out of the box settings.

Honestly, if you want small and cheap get a raspberry pi to play around or rent a VM.

If you care about storage too you can get a Synology NAS (pricy) which is pretty newbie proof and comes out of the box with different and photo sync along with support for VMs or docker.

LineageOS on the Shield? Any drawbacks?

You can run tdarr which is automated transcoding.

https://home.tdarr.io/

Tail scale can be self hosted also. But for example, it took me 5 clicks to set up a tail scale network with 3 devices.

Also it’s apparently been buffed to 100 devices for free and 3 custom domains.

Also open source https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale