But have you repeatedly tried every freakin’ open-source project management tool out there multiple times just to have the chef’s-kiss perfect todo list?

If you have, then we can sit together. :)

So effin’ impressive. Seriously.

Self dealing since I have two brand new ones for sale on /r/homelabsales but: I’ve used the Gigabyte Brix Extreme for exactly this use case.

• 64gb of RAM? Check.
• I had mine loaded with a 2tb NVME and 2tb SSD, but if I wanted to yank the wifi/Bluetooth card, I could have added an additional NVME.
• 2.5gb ethernet

Take a look at my post history if you want to save some only on one (or two!).

When I resold services, I used Plesk – good account/customer security, looked professional, and the support was, whike not perfect, certainly better than a purely open-source product.

Everyone wants to what-if about email, but it was never a big problem for me, even with bad actors. Accounts were rate limited, and repeat offenders to the terms of service were kicked off the platform.

I spread out and lessened my vulnerability by sending emails to a smart host that, in turn, spread the mail load across multiple Postfix servers, each with a different IP address from a different block. If a server got blacklisted and that couldn’t quickly be remedied? It was just removed from the pool, and a new one was added.

Calendly. I wantwantwant to self-host Cal.com, but the only way I’ve ever made it work is via Cloudron. And if I’m gonna pay for Cloudron? I might as well just pay for Calendly.

Amazon SES is a virtually zero-cost solution for SMTP. You can set up a smart relay on your mail server or simply have users plug in the SES SMTP.

The Exim mail server used in the free Hestia control panel also allows for using local SMTP or relayed SMTP on a per-dimain basis.