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I don't shut down my servers at night, because:

1. My two servers were built to consume little power - no second-hand enterprise servers here.
2. They're always doing something. For example, off-site backups are scheduled for when I'm asleep

I don't have a UPS because:

1. I am fortunate to live in a developed country with a very stable power grid
2. My servers can recover gracefully on the very rare occasion there is a power loss

I really like KitchenOwl’s shopping list interface, native iOS app, and OIDC integration. I haven’t used the budgeting or meal planning functions yet.

I’m using Autorestic, a wrapper for Restic that lets you specify everything in a config file. It can fire hooks before/after backups so I’ve added it to my healthchecks instance to know if backups were completed successfully.

One caveat with Restic: it relies on hostnames to work optimally (for incremental backups) so if you’re using Autorestic in a container, set the host: option in the config file. My backups took a few hours each night until I fixed this - now they’re less than 30 minutes.

I use it to synchronise RetroArch save states across my devices - desktop PC, Android TV, and Android handheld.

I've done a couple of host migrations since using Docker for all my services.

I don't even bother with database dumps or anything like that, I copy my compose files and mapped directories, being sure to preserve permissions, and all my services come back up without any issues.

I just swapped from Ubuntu to Debian but I don’t use VMs - only containers. I back my files up directly to B2 using autorestic, also running in a container that is scheduled by… another container (chadburn).

No need for any VMs in my house. I honestly can’t see the point of them when containers exist.

Since I started posting online under my real name, I’m even more careful about what I post.

@hispeedzintarwebz I love Traefik. I will admit it was a steep learning curve at first, but it elegantly handles everything I throw at it. You can include the Traefik configuration for a container in the docker-compose with labels.

What I like about Traefik is that it was built out of the box to do this kind of thing, rather than something like nginx which is actually a web server that has been shoehorned into being a reverse proxy.