Should matter since you’re running different firmware it sounds like.

Wouldn’t a HDD based system be like 1/10th the price? I don’t know if HDDs are going away any time soon.

Tapes are still sold in pretty high densities, don’t have to wait!

Thanks, I’ll check it next time startup takes awhile, the only thing standing out from my current log (wasn’t a low startup this time) is loading images took about 3 seconds.

I’m really curious how you expect someone to make a living if they offer everything for free.

It does seem a bit better now on 15.3, but essentially on 15.x often the first time I start it up in the morning after my PC has been in sleep state all night, it will sit for 10-20 seconds on “Loading connections”. Starts after that first one are only a few seconds like normal.

Is there a log file I can poke through to see if anything stand out next time it happens? I only have about 20 connections in total.

Regardless I love the software, it’s very useful even for my small set of self hosting stuff I use it for!

Thats correct but that is fine for the majority of setups.

What about using the default docker bridge networking instead of macvlan? You can access docker containers from the host, they can talk to each other if on the same bridge network, and there’s nothing hardcoded into the docker compose files.

The last few updates in particular seem to have very long launch times

They need to add voice rooms like discord/TS/mumble, where they are there in the sidebar and can be joined/left instantly.

Real-time game streaming like discord has is important also to get disord users to switch over.

The other issue I’ve had with getting gaming friends on matrix is its pretty slow sometimes, and clients don’t all have the same features which can be frustrating.

My one complaint is you can’t export to PDF and it has no print function to use a PDF converter either…

I like that it feels more like the web when I was younger, smaller communities usually with a more specific topic, run by a person or small group.

It’s in beta, so large changes are to be expected. I don’t think it’s fair to blame them for design changes right now.

If you exclusively use cloudflare tunnels you don’t need a proxy on your end unless you want to do split-horizon DNS for local access.

But otherwise, nginx, caddy, traefik, npm, etc… all work fine with Cloudflare. Personally I’m using Traefik and Caddy on my setups right now.

Also, a bit off-topic, but is Cloudflare’s proxy really needed? I heard it’s insecure to self host sites without Cloudflare because you’re exposing your ip address and leaving yourself vulnerable but is it really bad to self host without Cloudflare?

Up to you, cloudflare is a recent thing and hosting was done without it just fine before it came along. Personally I don’t use cloudflares proxy very much, I just use it mostly for DNS management.

Regardless of VM or LXC, I would only install docker once. There’s generally no need to create multiple docker VMs/LXCs on the same host. Unless you have a specific reason; like isolating outside traffic by creating a docker setup for only public services.

Backups are the same with VM or LXC on Proxmox.

The main advantages of LXC that I can think of:

• Slightly less resource overhead, but not much (debian minimal or alpine VM is pretty lightweight already).
• Ability to pass-through directories from the host.
• Ability to pass-through hardware acceleration from a GPU, without passing through the entire GPU.
• Ability to change CPU cores or RAM while it’s running.