In this process I discovered that I could connect it to tailscale and then be able to connect to it securely using that as the VPN tunnel. Making it so that I could store all of my pictures and music on my Umbrel and stream them to my phone so that I don't have to take up space on my phone. It worked pretty well as long as the cell data was good
Using this system I discoverered several cool tools. My daughter and like to play minecraft together and when running my own servers I used to use MineOS https://mineos.net/ just because it made running the server so much easier than running it as an unprotect service. It saved my bacon one time when some griefers were coming into our world and destroying our builds, I just rolled the server to a previous version and enabled the whitelist to block! This system which you can run inside of a docker container is called Crafty https://craftycontrol.com/ which does that same thing but within a protected container and when you pair it with Playit https://playit.gg/ you can host your own minceraft server locally without opening ports in your firewall which can leave you vulnerable to network attacks trying to compromise your server.
I find it difficult to save all of the recipes that I find online and so I wanted a way to keep them. I cam across Mealie https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie which allows you to put in the webpage address that has the recipe that you want to keep and scrape it from the website saving it into Mealie in recipe format without any ADs from the original site!
It is also where I first found the web based Quake 3 Arena server that I ended up hosting on my VPS servers for everyone here to play on https://quake3.that90s.site/.
It is also where I first of something called Dokploy https://dokploy.com/ which is what I now use to manage all of my hosted web applications on my local servers as well as my paid web hosts.
For monitoring my hosts I use Checkle https://github.com/operacle/checkcle and for watching for iss ues in the system logs (like multiple failures to login to your server's SSH) I use Wazuh https://wazuh.com/
My Current Micro Server Home Cloud
