Why not use Macvlan and join your Dockers to that rather than a bridge to Tailscale or Cloudflared? Then they are broken out so you can apply monitoring.

There are some ARM chips that go down to microamps in low power mode and draw only 1 Watt at full power but might drive you nuts trying to run Linux on them.

Let it run. Just power off idle drives and such.

Don’t backup the container!!

Map volumes with your data to physical storage and then simply backup those folders with the rest of your data. Docker containers are already either backed up in your development directory (if you wrote them) or GitHub so like the operating system itself, no need tk backup anything. The whole idea of Docker is the containers are ephemeral. They are reset at every reboot.

Here is the problem you face speaking very generically. If you cache everything on the clients access is fast but storage is an issue. If you cache on the LANs speed is an issue. You can try to store on an internet VPS but storage costs are high. You can cache just the index, “Google Drive” style and download/cache only as needed. This probably works the best because you control it down to the file level and speed is not an issue because you work iff local copies. Otherwise any scenario is going to be up against the bandwidth problem.

Those are interesting but what’s not obvious to me, are those regular rates or teaser rates? I mean a static ip costs roughly $0.69/month from what I’ve read. So that leaves very, very little meat on the bone.

Fly.IO gives you 3 VPSs for free and doesn’t randomly delete them but the free ones are VPS or ipV6 only. That’s not a problem for your use case. A static ipv4 IP is $2/month. IONOS is your next cheapest at $3 then Digital Ocean at $5.

Hint: don’t bother. You really aren’t going to remember more than 3 properties. Just keep track of your top 3. Usually on an extended house hunt you spend less and less time after the first few. Often we walk in or just drive up and it’s an instant no. You quickly narrow down to the ones you want.

Second hint: the internet is great for pre screening (getting rid) of choices. But many issues such as big layout issues, a smoker or vapor or pothead lived in the house, or any negative detail they don’t want to advertise can only be found by inspecting the house.

If you can live on ipv6 only fly.IO is free for 1 CPT shared with low RAM and disk. Up to 3 are free. An ipv4 ip is $2 per month.

Oracle is supposed to be the better deal but refuses to accept my credit card and I’ve heard lots of issues like erasing servers.

At $2-3 IONOS is the next step up. Digital Ocean is popular too but at$5 blows up your budget.

May want to look for stable storage first.

Trouble is many IT departments blindly purchase install whatever crap a security company recommends, without following step 2 (white listing).

I’ve been blocked by these stupid filters from Amazon while in engineering having to order parts to get the equipment running because it was flagged as “Japanese porn” on the guest (contractor) network. And yes I resorted to a proxy/socks tunnel to my VPS.

The thing about containers is they usually have no NÉED in general for pure ope file system access. No need for full network access (host, LAN, WAN). So the smaller the privileges the better. So even if it is compromised there’s very little you can do with it.

This is also a general principle for network management. For instance when does the TV need to print or access any server other than Jellyfin?

Umm, a static ipv4 ip?