Absolutely no shot I can afford 40 TB of SSDs for my NAS

You don’t need portainer for it to be easy! The wiki is quite great at providing setup examples for docker compose, regular docker, and others!

I figure if I’m already using their proxy, may as well have my domains there as well… one fewer party to trust.

Not something that I need but absolutely beautiful UI and congrats on the 2.0 release!

I believe the synology DSM should have a feature for this. Try the storage manager app and it should tell you SMART info.

Yeah tbh if I’m already going to be using Cloudflare for DNS, might as well use them for their registrar as well. One fewer entity to trust.

They own the domain instead of you. They can then act as a middle man between any inquiries and you, and as a company, they’re able to shield you from many 3rd parties.

I know nothing of ToTK speedrunning… I assume this actually follows the meta for speedrunning?? Because this is amazing.

Definitely a fair point, always good to see that in a project

Although in the subscription version, SSO is not available unless you purchase the “Contact Us” version. https://sso.tax would like a word.

Yep, I use Fastmail and it has this well integrated within the service as “Masked Emails”

I use Fastmail.

My domain has me plus the wife, and she’s not willing to tolerate any amount of fiddling or bugs or anything, so we needed something that would Just Work™, and Fastmail fits the bill quite well.

Their features are great, I actually prefer their app over the native iOS app, and they’ve been rock solid since I signed up. I can also have any amount of aliased and I can put all three of my domains on there. Plus they’re not Google which was the biggest thing I needed them to be.

Love / hate how it’s always the easiest answer. For me it’s always fucking DNS.

Without specific experience, my assumption would be no. Much like when plugging into a desktop computer’s motherboard HDMI port instead of the GPU HDMI port.

Yep, and if you’re using docker, gluetun can make it fairly easy to set up portforwarding, then you can call the API from the qbit container to update the port forwarded setting.

I don’t have a great answer for you, but hopefully I can provide some ideas that I hope can get your ideas flowing

1. Use a config file and use the built-in VPN configuration. Not very flexible, but you can be pretty confident it should work.
2. Use some containers (with docker or podman) to set up a qbit and a gluetun container.
3. Use the new version of the app for linux if you’re not already.

Whatever you do, I hope you look into the option in advanced settings in qbit to a specific network interface so it only works through the VPN. Unfortunately you definitely right that the Linux app is a second class citizen :/

Curious what it is about those countries that would cause you to advise against using them?

I switched to Proton VPN and the gluetun docker container for port forwarding.

Good to know!

I’m not entirely sure on the absolute best, but I always use Switzerland. I believe they have extremely strong privacy laws that protect individual privacy and I believe they have a relaxed view on downloading so long as it is solely for personal use, though uploading / sharing torrenting is still very much disallowed.