BlueÆther

I run opnsense as a VM and have done for maybe 5 years now, moved across 3 different sets of hardware.

I DO have a hardware router under the ONT for if / when I feck up proxmox.

Snapshots are great when you start to play with the firewall settings or upgrades

I had/have no trouble here

I suspect that much of lemmy runs on this rule “Lastly, Don’t be a dick”, I know that my instance and the other *.nz do.

@prodajvodapavel@aggregatet.org Don’t be a dick, and you should be fine - if you want to be <edgy> then (as @empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com said) go kick rocks

I wouldn’t worry about ‘website traffic’ if you are using federated services: there is a shit ton of chatter back and forth between servers.

You could put the UI behind a simple password page but you will have to leave all the API urls open.

It takes time and effort to keep ALL the services update (as well as the host OS). So much so that I have actually taken down my wordpress blog

You can use a single domain and subdomains for each service. Once you start to host multi-services you will need more and more compute power and storage.