Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.

I really don’t think you regret a God damn thing broadcom.

This is a bad take. The public wasn’t the one that would need to pay Comcast, they would have charged Netflix.

As you’ve found, proxmox isnt an application that runs on windows or Linux. It’s an OS that you can install. And yes, you can configure bit to auto start the VMs when the machine boots.

It’s designed to run headless, so you’ll do all your configurations from a web browser. If you want to go crazy, I’m sure that raspberry pi can be configured as KVM for it (though piKVM is a bit of extra hardware.)

If you have something like tailscale or wireguard to a machine in the house, you can easily reach the web gui from any other machine on the VPN network and reboot the VMs that way.

You can even build monitoring that reboots the pihole VM of it stops responding to DNS queries.

Why are you wanting to move the VM to a bare metal install?

In my experience, I would think the more efficient method is to install a hypervisor like proxmox and move the VM and there. And then run another VM for pihole, and maybe even a third for tailscale. It lets you have the ability to expand as you need and to better manage backups and services easier.

Otherwise, if you are determined to go from VM to bare metal, you want to find a backup solution that can backup the whole machine and restore it with a recovery disk. I think veeam and Acronis would work. There are tons out there.

I have a Dell server with 12 disks ranging from 12 tb to 22 tb. I’m looking to replace it with a supermicro server that can hold 36 disks instead. It runs unraid so I can upgrade dissimilar disks easily.

Consider power line adapters instead of wifi.

Lol sounds like /nickserv on irc

Fair enough, just throwing that out there as an option to move DNS somewhere that does have API access for certbot to use.

Is there a particular reason you are keeping your DNS there?

I thought acme or certbot could handle the DNS entries with an API call to your DNS provider.

It may require another plugin though. Googling some variation of certbot acme automate DNS challenge will give you a dozen tutorials.

The writers strike who has to fight over getting streaming royalties goes to show that the money doesn’t even make it to the artists.

The issue isn’t paying. It’s how fractured the services are and how we don’t even get to pay to own a copy of the art.

This is how I feel.

I would much rather have a single machine running vms which I can easily snapshot and back up rather than a dozen small machines I have to deal with power supplies and networking.

SBCs have specific use cases, usually where they need to interact with hardware. That’s what made the rpi so great with it’s GPIO and hats. But that’s a rather small use case.

This is only half the issue. You can put a server in the car, but that doesn’t solve the networking issue. Most have a cellular connection now that needs to be paid for by someone. Then there is the issue of discovery. When you open that app on your phone, how does it know where to connect? Sure, it could look for a local or Bluetooth network. But that would only work if you’re already close to you car like when it’s in the garage.

Outside of that home network, something needs to facilitate the connection between your phone and the car. since neither will have a static IP address, it’s essentially impossible to achieve without some server elsewhere to broker that connection.

Ombi or Overseerr (I prefer Overseerr) will let them do requests automatically. Overseerr uses Plex logins so you don’t need to manage additional passwords for them.

Ah yea. I’ve seen the whole digital ocean IP space be blocked. They really dont like digital ocean.

Most mail service will not outright block email. Most seem to be configured to follow a handful of blacklists and build a reputation.

They might start you marked as spam, but few outright block based solely on IP. Spam filters are far more mature than that these days.

Interesting. I don’t really want to get into troubleshooting, but general curiosity has me wondering a few things since my server gets delivered to Gmail but only marked as spam for a new domain for the first couple weeks.

Is there a hard spf fail? Is your IP or domain on any blacklists? Is it a digital ocean or similar vps provider using their IP pool? Do you get any bounce back from Gmail with a reason or is it silently dropping?

Weird. It seems like they were concerned with adorableporn.

As if adorable is a trait that only children can have.