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Haven’t heard of twingate, but sounds a lot like the same as OpenZiti.

Thanks for the writeup. I was also thinking of using tailscale or headscale for some of my usecases. From my understanding so far it’s great for personal stuff, but unsure how it would work for more users.

You should consider looking into a proper backup solution like restic or borg, which do a great job in saving space and deduplication.

Depending on your workflow for the web content, maybe a git or gitops based workflow would be a better way of doing things like pushing the changes to git and have actions publish it for you to your website. Like some static website generators, or Github/GitLab pages do it.

Have a look at CoreDNS.

Personally I avoid running a local DNS server, as most of the gateway, router, firewalls allow you to configure static host entries which are then automatically resolved.

I’m not sure if I understood your question correctly, but the

describing the layout and it producing the image output

sounds to me like you would like to have a ‘text to diagram’ tool like

• D2
• Mermaid
• GraphViz
• PlantUML

To my knowledge these are the most common known ones and https://text-to-diagram.com/ gives you nice comparison between them.

You can also find more alternatives at https://xosh.org/text-to-diagram/

It looks like a case for a classical Monitoring System From what you described, have a look at

• Prometheus + Grafana + Exporters (e.g. node-exporter, …)
• Netdata

as these seem to be the most commonly used ones, among all the other ones available.