No, not really. Programming requires understanding of the underlying hardware, at least to a certain extent. Otherwise performance issues will look like dark magic and optimizing anything would be impossible.
Where do you start debugging if something goes wrong with the software and your information level is this low/ do you look at network stats? CPU utilization, paging/swapping? Is the hard disk bandwidth the bottleneck? Without at least some passable understanding of a computer architecture people like this just throw up their hands, or throw whatever tricks they know at the wall and see what sticks.
Yeah exit nodes can be lots of effort(probably, never ran one) but relay nodes do get issues. Some banks do outright block any nodes that run tor, regardless of the exit node or relay node status.
So gist of this is, of they are not some random people hiding, but there's a real company to -presumably- reap in some ad money or subscription money for their StalkerPlus product.or something, it takes a single determined EU citizen to fuck them up.
FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation.
Two wrongs don't make a right. I was scratching my head for a few seconds looking at the thumbnail and the title. And even the post body didn't clarify things. š¤·š»
The thing you want is "glue records" the upper level server would serve ns1.example.com (this is an approved domain for example use, better to use example.com than making your own example up) as the authoritative name server. Then provide the glue record which says "ns1.example.com is at IP address X".
It should ask for IP addresses as well as hostname. Otherwise they only assumed people will "host" their domain in another hosted, as opposed to self-hosting.
In that case (and in any other case) change your registrar to someone else who supports glue records.
I recommend Halo clear switches. they are slightly less noisy than browns, but the real beauty is, after the tactile activation they become "harder" (i.e. more force needed to push further down).
It's an excellent way of training yourself out of bottoming out.
Lots of people contributed really good answers, so I don't have anything valuable to add to their answers. But I wanted to point out for your detailed question, you include what you have done, what is your understanding and what are your shortcomings clearly. As opposed to a lot of posts with vague, detail-challenged narratives, that's a top notch post.
And the community delivered by giving good answers, so go community!
Also, you didn't just ghost after the initial post and interacted.with the people who graciously donated their time, so another bonus point there, as well.
Yeah, that's the key point. They weren't trawling all the servers, they probably had a wiretap order for one specific server. As a legal business, you can't just say no to police because you don't like mitm.
I have been using porkbun.com as a domain registrar.
For email hosting, self-hosting is a lot of effort. If you just want the damned thing to work. I've heard good things about Fastmail, and personally I'm using migadu.com. it's $19/year for micro.
Use any imap client, or if you want to keep using what you're using Gmail and Outlook and Apple mail apps w all support your new personal account over imap as well
6GB is more than enough for many desktop environments. Plus, a server wouldn't have any anyway. not booting the Ubuntu installer seems like a bug, or other non-resource problem. if you try with a newer installer, or some other distro, that computer can host many things.
Instead of a bare metal hypervisor, you can install Kubernetes on it, k3s works on a single node. Lots of use across the industry.