Depends on the hardware, but my weak server can sometimes be overwhelmed with random ip trying to find a vulnerable service (accessing random port and path combination)
For me it’s mainly to aggregate multiple news site so I can more easily read them. It also helped me to centrally track which news article I have read across multiple devices
My biggest fear of hosting my own important data is losing it to some hardware failure. Currently I mitigate this issue by mirroring my NAS data to onedrive (with encryption)
I always like the idea of home assistant, but I haven’t figured out a practical automation for my home. Maybe you can share some of your most useful automation?
personal telegram bot to auto convert news link to epub for reading in my ereader
All of the service other than jellyfin is hosted on a vps. Jellyfin is hosted from my home and can be accessed remotely via wireguard. However because my isp doesn’t provide a public ip, I need to use my vps as wireguard jump host
If you just wanted email forwarding, cloudflare support it. If I remember correctly, it’s included in their free plan