This is exactly it - storage is the best example

Could I run all of my stuff using a cloud service? Of course, but it would be very expensive and only available if my internet works (and there’s a lot of hops between me and my data in the cloud)

I can buy a 2TB HDD for £64 - most cloud providers charge that much per year for 1TB

Proxmox because it’s just Debian with a pretty UI for QEMU

I’m liking it a lot more than ESXi - it’s just better honestly

When Broadcom finally kill them and you’re sick of their bullshit, switch to Proxmox

Yep, monitoring in multiple places with Zabbix

I have pfSense as well (soon to be OPNsense) and that shows traffic per network it’s connected to, so that’s great for live traffic

Zabbix monitors the networks and collects traffic data

Zabbix also monitors all containers and their network traffic

Don’t try to be clever and change the port from 3389 to something else either

Scanners can fingerprint traffic and just blast the other ports instead

I (foolishly) did this a few years ago and luckily I had account lockout enabled

Constant attempts all day long - they were even able to enumerate local users and try to log in as them (fortunately they never could cause the passwords were random keepass ones)

Don’t do it, seriously

I think most normal people don’t even care about that sadly

Shows how good the quality is of most stuff on Netflix

Sad isn’t it? There’s a whole generation growing up renting everything from their home to their phone to the content they want to enjoy

Oh man I miss the days of being able to “launder” music through it

For anyone who doesn’t know, you used to be able to upload your own library of mp3s to GPM

When you’d do this, Google would try to content match the song and replace it with the full high quality version

That you could then download and replace your lower quality version