You would need to create a new torrent whenever new files are added or edited. Not very practical for continuous use.

Yeah porkbun is good.

To see how the glue records work, you can run dig +trace example.com

This answer goes into detail how it works behind the scenes.

https://superuser.com/questions/715632/how-does-dig-trace-actually-work

RFC 2606 is your friend ;⁠-⁠)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606

Their own doc, sure why not.

Any other context where there’s a giant with the same name. No, please at least write it out expanded once.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I was scratching my head for a few seconds looking at the thumbnail and the title. And even the post body didn’t clarify things. 🤷🏻

I use porkbun.com for my domains, which is excellent, and also has glue record support.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/112-how-to-host-your-own-nameservers-with-glue-records

The thing you want is “glue records” the upper level server would serve ns1.example.com (this is an approved domain for example use, better to use example.com than making your own example up) as the authoritative name server. Then provide the glue record which says “ns1.example.com is at IP address X”.

It should ask for IP addresses as well as hostname. Otherwise they only assumed people will “host” their domain in another hosted, as opposed to self-hosting.

In that case (and in any other case) change your registrar to someone else who supports glue records.

Check out this previous comment

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9168742

Lots of people contributed really good answers, so I don’t have anything valuable to add to their answers. But I wanted to point out for your detailed question, you include what you have done, what is your understanding and what are your shortcomings clearly. As opposed to a lot of posts with vague, detail-challenged narratives, that’s a top notch post.

And the community delivered by giving good answers, so go community!

Also, you didn’t just ghost after the initial post and interacted.with the people who graciously donated their time, so another bonus point there, as well.

What kind of limitation did you run into? Lack of packages or speed?

6GB is more than enough for many desktop environments. Plus, a server wouldn’t have any anyway. not booting the Ubuntu installer seems like a bug, or other non-resource problem. if you try with a newer installer, or some other distro, that computer can host many things.

Lots of relevant comments in this post https://aussie.zone/post/4286731

ZFS has a “copies=N” setting, but documentation and discussion I can find say there’s no guarantee that the copies will end up on different devices (vdevs in ZFS parlance)

Same here.

https://longhorn.io/ for the curious

You can use Snikket with other servers too, there is no restriction or special sauce. It’s mostly a fork of Conversations.

in addition to “dedicated Nas + compute node” and “just use a desktop” suggestions, there’s the microserver option in between. Small, but has enough power to run stuff other than storage.

Hp proliant microserver is what I use, you can try getting a previous generation from second hand market.

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/product-catalog/compute/proliant-servers/pip.proliant-microserver.1014673551.html

“underpowered” routers are usually underpowered for multiple high bandwidth wireless connections. if you disable the wireless, shoving bits over copper would -usually- be efficient enough to not be the bottleneck.

Did you consider keeping the services closed to the outside world and using tailscale to access them? Doesn’t work well if you want to give access to a bunch of people, though.

Random idea, continuously ping the router from the laptop so it doesn’t “forget” that the laptop exists on the WLAN?

(I know you mention the laptop can still reach out when you try, but maybe the trick is to keep having traffic to-from the laptop continuously)

i also think that it’s overkill, especially for a minimalistic tool like wireguard. That’s why I mentioned “if you want to be extra paranoid”. This forum is for learning, and this question is an open ended learning question, hence, an opportunity to learn about port knocking, even if the actual real life benefit of that would be minuscule.