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You basically need a router between the networks. I would recommend pfsense or opnsense or if you like cli vyOS. I run a pfsense that has my ISP router on the WAN port and a network interface for all VLANs and then I configured the firewall to allow specific traffic to specific devices in specific VLANs. For example my PC can reach the smart home controller website but no other device. And the samrthome devices only can reach the DNS in the ISP network (my kinda DMZ) and the router to reach the internet. And for every VLAN there are own rules where goes what communication.

You also can setup that on the managed switch which you would need for setting up VLANs.

2 days for most hosts as they had a kernel update. Other hosts about 30 days (no updates pending). And the winner is my core switch with 750 days up time.

Moving your gaming PC as client makes no sense no. But gaming servers like a Minecraft or whatever severer can make sense.

I can recommend XCP-NG as Hypervisor. I have over 25 VMs running my whole home from DHCP/DNS over media servers to game servers for CS2 and DayZ. And it’s stable and performant.

Free electricity for everyone.

So you know how to do it securely and analyze what may go one when it is attacked. Or what else do you want with cybersecurity? It’s about securing services on the global network and local. And webhosting is one of those service.

Use ELK. It’s basically the same but open source and unlimited for free. Also splunk sucks. Have to use it at work and it really isn’t great. (My personal opinion)

The Bill at the end of the year.

Depends on the support case you got. If it’s technical you have basically 24/7. I am in Germany but had once a hard drive failure in a server at 1am contacted technical support and it took about 30 minutes overall and the new drive was resilvering and the server back online. Takes a bit as the NOC needs to go to the data center and so on.

The problem is a lot of people here are beginners and have no real clue about network security. And opening a port is opening a door. If you have a bouncer that clears people beforehand then you can keep the door open. But you will still need to keep your bouncer trained so he can take care of people you don’t want. Same with software. Keep it updated and have security enhancements in place like 2FA and analysis tools like crowdsec or fail2ban. And the open port might not an issue at all.

But if you open a device like a NAS (cough QNAP cough) then you have a higher security risk.

TLDR; if you know what you are doing it might not have implications.

Moved on from compose ages ago. So should you.

Nope. Plain old Almalinux and deploy my services with ansible. I don’t see benefits in the bloatware that any UI on a server is (for me).

And I know I will get hat for this from a part of the community but that’s just my humble opinion.

I run three piholes with gravity sync and have none of the problems you describe.

But pihole isn’t big magic it’s basically a dnsmasq with some management stuff around it. you could host a dnsmasq yourself and just fill the filter rules in the config file your self with ansible. The adliges are publicly available just get them with Ansible and parse them into a dnsmasq config template.

Here is an blog about it. https://alblue.bandlem.com/2020/05/using-dnsmasq.html