I use NGINX because it’s what I’m familiar with. If I was starting again, I would probably use Caddy.

Try a delivery test to an Outlook / Exchange server. I’ll be amazed if it goes through.

I 100% agree here. Each instance should focus on a single topic. It makes no practical sense that there are multiple identical communities across different servers.

Same. Like, I’m relatively confident in the systems I have running, but not so confident that I’d trust them with my most important passwords.

PiVPN is great. Works on just as well on a standard server with Ubuntu.

I’m relatively competent installing server software, but the Lemmy instructions completely flummoxed me. Their docker instructions just don’t work.

I ended up using the ansible docker scripts and filling out the blanks because I’m unfamiliar with ansible.

If this is as good as it sounds, you’re doing everyone a massive favour.