I host my email, just not at home but on a rented server.

Here I documented it all https://wiki.gardiol.org/4-e-mail-hosting

It works, its been working for decades now. Never had significant issues…

Email is quite resilient. Servers keep trying to send again and again messages for hours before they give up… So a backup server is not even really required.

Well my small private instance is there!

I selfhost my.chatbox (and agent) on my hardware at home.

Open models are surprisingly good and any thing you tell them stays on your premises, so no privacy risks.

You need some hardware and performance are not as chatgpt or Claude.

Yeah, it’s good, but it’s not a replacement for your own intelligence. Treat them as a free assistant which seems competent but probably says shit to please you…

Always double check and apply your own intelligence.

I find this comparison bad for two reasons.

First, BI is alive, AI is not alive.

Second, a leech has no positive reason to exist and do no good to anyone, probably the only exception is some bird feeding on them, which could feed on other critters. AI is only a tool, and as such can have good use when used properly and not abused.

I tried stalwart. Could not run reliably on the server I rent. Too slow.

Instead postfix + dovecot just fly and barely used any resources.

Maybe tools like stalwart have use for bigger email servers, but for my use case it’s just massive overkill. Easy to setup tough.

Yes you do.

First of all, there are services that will refuse to work properly on http only. Specially if you want an SSO like authelia, will not work over http

Second, modern browsers will complain when using plain http if the website has forms to fill or passwords to write … very annoying, but it’s the way it is.

Third, having the “this site is not secure” broken lock is not very nice for users. At best they might complain, at worse they will get used to “unsecured” websites and .ight end up easier prey for fake sites in the future. Yes I mean wife or kids. These are things normal users should not see as normal…

Last, if you expose anything to the web, please never ever do that without proper https with certificates from let’s encrypt.

I have relaxed the rate limiter on the proxy, try now

It seems it’s being overwhelmed somehow… Refresh does help.

Yes, my use case seems to be accepted indeed.

Can you elaborate on using obsidian as a memory store?

You are welcome, Indeed my original wall of text was typical of AI bots…

Well, rules are important and knowing them is too. Ignoring them can then be a choice, otherwise it’s just ignorance…

But yes I fully understand your point.

Thank you! These days it’s good not to master English enough to be mistaken for an ai bot

My mother language is Italian, not English. But I spent some time living in the US so maybe there is that at my advantage.

LazyNVR was started without any AI assistance… Both use of ai and the rule came afterward.

I am not native English speaker, thanks for the correction.

Smartpants, you wouldn’t have read it either way…

And I wrote in the first sentences that no ai has been used to write it’s it’s all my personal salt

Should I edit the original post? I can delete the text and leave the link

My data is a raid5 (Linux MD raid) on top of which I have btrfs partition. They are 4 dad’s.

I have another raid5 on USB mechanical disks again MD raid5 + btrfs, which is my 1st level backup.

Os, Gentoo Linux, is on an nvme ext4, going to migrate to btrfs when I have time.

Server is a Ryzen 9 with 64gb ram that I also use for AI inference thanks to two Nvidia RTX A4000. Currently one on PCIe 16x and one on pcie 4x. I am waiting for a pci-e bifurcation card to move both cards on 8x 8x pcie bus… Splitting my CPU bound 16x lanes in two…

Edit: I host lost of stuff… Mostly on bare metal or podman rootless…

Check out my wiki at https://wiki.gardiol.org/ where I keep track of what i install and how.

Ignore the ai dj, I was using it to generate automatic playlists from my music, with the dj turned off.

But the setup as a radio was overall overkill for my needs.

I use btrfs on main data disks and backup disks. Recently it caught a data corruption due to a wrong write (neutrino? Luck? Halloween approaching?).

Then it occurred to me that similar corruption would have been undiscovered for years until I needed that file on ext4…

So, that’s a good reason to migrate…