The point is not to self-host email (not entirely anyway; you’ll always need an SMTP relay with good IP reputation, e.g. mailgun), but you can use a regular web hosting company and buy your own domain there or separately via porkbun etc… Your bank won’t have a clue what email you use, you’re just paying a web hosting co. / domain registrar.
I kinda wish more people would look beyond the big email providers that rely on proprietary apps and tech. Email is a set of open protocols but it was never designed to be secure and never will be. Proton et al can only offer e2ee within its boundary (GPG works just as well if you really need it) - for everything else (most stuff), it’s pretty pointless to try harden that.
For the last 26+ years, I’ve been hosting my email on simple cPanel, with my own domain name, 100% managed by myself. I have a catch-all / wildcard mailbox, get almost no spam (and can blackhole any address that leaks, as they inevitably do), and can access it in my own way (Roundcube, Thunderbird ftw.)
Right now, I use old-fashioned POP3 (so it’s deleted off the server), but could if I wanted, set up a local IMAP server with something like fetchmail and chain it together for more privacy and convenience. (Remember, you’re never gonna approach ee2e levels unless it’s in a proprietary system.) The most important thing; since the hosting company is responsible for email delivery, they use reliable third parties (think mailgun, sendgrid, brevo etc.) as part of the package.
Total control, cheap, and don’t ever have to rely on a big tech company (or a CEO getting political).
Multiple backups may be kept.
Nice work, but if I may suggest - it lacks hardlink support, so’s quite wasteful in terms of disk space - the number of ‘tags’ (snapshots) will be extremely limited.
At least two robust solutions that use rsync+hardlinks already exist: rsnapshot.org and dirvish.org (both written in perl). There’s definitely room for backup tools that produce plain copies, instead of packed chunk data like restic and Duplicacy, and a python or even bash-based tool might be nice, so keep at it.
However, I liken backup software to encryption - extreme care must be taken when rolling and using your own. Whatever tool you use, test test test the backups. :)
If they’re supposed to be binary-identical data (same file checksums), you can use BiglyBTs Swarm Merging feature - without manually copying (which isn’t as reliable due to the start/end of the files not bordering on the chunk boundaries.
If they’ve been modified in any way though, this won’t work. However, you might be able to use its Swarm Discovery to find other torrents with the same data and complete with Swarm Merging.
It’s no different than any other client, and looks like the torrent is healthy so should just work.
As with all BT clients, you get better connectivity by forwarding the designated port. Does it say NAT OK at the bottom of the window?
Have heard ppl used it with that many but not tested myself.
Yea qBittorrent, chosen as was meant to be lightweight so runs in a docker container on a Raspberry Pi 4 (but often eats all 8GB available RAM - could be just a problem with the docker imagine tho.) Haven’t used Transmission so can’t compare.
Compared to the memory footprint of web browsers, a Java BT app is pretty tame on modern computers these days. Nor do you have to faff around with installing JRE manually. It just works.
Resource usage is pretty good tho and it can handle hundreds of torrents with ease.
Towards the end of its life, Vuze started adding crap like ads in the sidepanel and spyware in the installer. Plus a bunch of useless features like DVD burning and ‘content network’. My guess is the two main devs got involved with some investors at the time of the Azureus rename and didn’t like the way it was heading, so forked the project and rebranded to BiglyBT so they could go it on their own. Since it was open source, and mostly their own code, they couldn’t really stop them. Edit: More info at TF.
Sad thing is, many people are blissfully unaware of the history and still running Vuze to this day - when it hasn’t been touched in 6+ years. Amazingly the site is still up but nobody’s home, so its very risky to be using an out-of-date client like that with a spyware-laden installer - with the very real possibility of the binaries being switched out. (Their SSL cert has lapsed several times.)
The good news is, if anyone’s still running Vuze, BiglyBT is a straight swap-out.
If anyone’s unfamiliar with this client, it’s been around a long time, and was previously named Vuze (and before that: Azureus)!
Tis been under active development by the two main devs for all these years. The adware crap was removed from day 1 of the fork and it’s a really solid (and featurefull) client. Highly recommend. Also does I2P.
The absolute best feature is Swarm Discovery and Swarm Merge, which lets you find identical large files across different torrents and cross-seed and merge said torrents while downloading both. With Swarm, I’ve been able to download torrents with <1.0 availability - completing both torrents and become the seed hero. And this was before it supported the v2 BitTorrent spec (which gives you individual file hashes).
I still use qBit for my *arr automation but BiglyBT is always there for everything else and as a great backup client.
Well your account is on lemmy.world so how d’ya know the issue isn’t with your own access to the front end?
Many don’t interact with the lemmy.world directly, so we might only see delays in post propogation (if there is such an issue on the backend - I don’t see any but could be wrong).
I agree picking the biggest instances isn’t great from a scaling perspective, but s’gonna be hard to move any community once established.
Plus footybite.com, which seems to be a copycat, but I can never work out which one yet they both have working streams - one more so than the other. Unfortunately, web site streaming is always hit n miss, and the sheer number of streams listed on these sites makes it harder to find good ones.
Sad they phased out the Ace Stream links (from back when it was r/soccerstreams), coz the tech is pretty impressive and works at scale. If you can hunt down the Ace Stream ID for a particular channel, you can get really good quality streams.
Dunno about Posteo or Mailbox but couldn’t really recommend a dedicated email provider as I alluded to earlier - cPanel gives me complete control, although it’s your own responsibility to set up mailboxes and configure it how you like. There’s a way to create a filter to give yourself a catch-all email (use a unique email address when signing up for things), and I turn off SpamAssassin as I prefer 100% deliverability and no false positives. If an email address ‘leaks’, I can simply blackhole it in cPanel.
Used to use Namecheap for domains but now Porkbun (much cheaper). Been using KeePass for a number of years too, but switching over to Bitwarden imminently. :)