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I'll give it a try, thanks.

That's a useful post. Thanks.

As someone who used Checkmk Raw (the free edition) and stopped because it’s an absolute bastard to set up, I’m going to recommend Zabbix.

I feel the same way about Zabbix. I'm not going to pretend that CheckMk is super intuitive but I guess I got over the hump because I don't find it difficult to setup, use, or manage.

The reality is for a homelab setup, probably something like uptime kuma would fit the bill for most people. I wanted something like Zabbix or CheckMk for all the detailed stats that Op is looking for. The longer I use it the more I realize I don't need them 99% of the time and I should probably give something like uptime kuma a try myself.

I get that, my wife works in education and makes minimum wage. People are underpaid and that sucks. Doesn't change the fact that inflation sucks too.

I remember when 40k was a decent living wage and it wasn't that long ago. 100k ain't CEO money tho. It's can't afford a house and living check to check when you have more than 2 kids money. Hell, probably is with only 2 kids. Forget about a college fund.

As someone who used Zabbix and stopped because it's an absolute pig, I'm going to recommend Checkmk.

Honestly, today, with a family, house, car, etc... 100k isn't as much as it sounds.

I'll certainly double check. I do not believe my VPS blocks port 25 but I'll double check. I'm not going to even attempt to run this on my home ISP. I'm not that much of a masochist.

100% agree. I probably should have said this in the OP but I already outbound relay to SES for messages that get generated within my home network (alerts and whatnot).

I understand all the pitfalls and caveats, I've maintained corporate mail services (i.e. exchange/o365) but I've not self-hosted before. I know the safe and sane solution would be a paid service, but like I said I'd like to experiment. I'll look at Mailu. Thanks.

Mailcow does everything, but it’s a 🐷.

That's my biggest concern with mailcow, is it's resource requirements. 8 GB of RAM is a big ask for a hobbyist VPS.

I'm in your situation and what I do is relay my email through Amazon SES. It's unlikely to get blacklisted and it's cheap. Costs me literally $0.01/mo to use.

On the inside I have a postfix server all the systems are configured to send through. The postfix server is set to relay all messages to SES. You also need to make sure that SES is configured in your domain SPF record.

EDIT: I just re-read your message. If all you're looking for is outbound email, mailcow is significant overkill. All you need is an MTA like postfix.

I was like you and avoided it for a long time. Dedicated use, lean VMs for each thing I was running. I decided to learn it, mostly out of curiosity and I'll be honest, I like the convenience of it a lot. They're easier to deploy and tend to have lower overhead than a single purpose VM running the same software.

Around the same time I switched my VM server over to Proxmox and learned about LxC containers. Those are also pretty nifty and a nice middle ground between full VM and docker container.

Currently I have a mixed environment because I like to use my homelab to learn, but most new stuff I deploy tends to go in this order: Docker > LxC > full VM.

Doesn't this run afoul of the first sale doctrine?

I'm assuming it's an external drive. So long as you directly mount the device to the VM you should be able to, yes.

Just let me hit ESC and see the panic.

I hadn't run across this before. Thanks for sharing.

This really felt like the NMS engine rethemed. As much as I love NMS I hope this game has more story/direction.

That as anecdotal as me saying it works fine for me. I haven't encountered any of the issues you quoted.

But overall I disagree that abandoning RCS to keep pushing for 3rd party apps is the correct path. How's that been going for the last decade? SMS is the only common platform between all the people I know. If there are issues with RCS they need to fixed.

Guilty as charged.

Sure. But if you're going to browse all then don't bitch about what's in it. All isn't your personal curated feed. That's what subscribed is for.