Doesn’t matter.

The US stores to decrypt later

And that’s more expensive than a lot of other providers

Any provider outside of the 5 eyes

US based provider so eww

MicroServers are really quiet (basically silent, the HDD are noisier)

I got one 1-2 years ago for ~250€, with a Xeon and 4GB of RAM.

I use it as a “NAS on steroid”: basically a NAS-like storage + data processing server (Paperless-NGX, downloader (games I bought on DRM free stores + Usenet), Syncthing middleman…)

It’s exactly what I wanted (with the limitation I had) so it’s perfect for me (it’s still on the 4GB of RAM and I don’t need more even with the dozen of container I run).

If the form factor is irrelevant for you, just get the equivalent tower (normal HP Proliant Gen8, or something more recent) for half the price with the same spec, you’re paying basically double for the MicroServer form factor.

From a security standpoint, it’s irrelevant. Yes the CPU are vulnerable to all the shitty Intel flaws (that Intel thought would never be discovered), but they’re all solved via kernel mitigation (that cost you 50% of the performance the CPU originally had)

Be warry of 3 things if you buy it:

• Finding the cable to use an SSD in the ODD slot is harder than you think (only a single brand make it), it’s also harder than you think to configure the raid card to use it (and it sometimes but rarely resets) - this is only relevant if you want to use that slot

• First 2 sata slots are SATA3, others 2 are SATA2 (and they’re not fast), ODD slot is SATA2, I think, I might be wrong

• The motherboard chipset has a bug: you must disable one of the virtalization option (I don’t remember which) if you virtualize / run a RDP docker container, otherwise the system will freeze after 30-1h of running said virtualized stuff in the background (took me days to find the solution, it’s not documented anywhere on the internet except for like one place)

I don’t know why projects set up the compose file to build the image when they already have a publicly available image to use

Because the compose that’s in the repository is the development compose, it’s not meant for users… literally the first line: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/master/docker-compose.yml#L1

TheFrenchGhosty ( https://invidious.io/team/ )

Docker Compose as is.

I used Portainer for like 2 years when I first learned Docker (I only used to deploy compose file and motoring the container), but it’s really shit when you know how it works.