We just recently purchased Mail Assure with Cove Data Protection from N-able to achieve a similar goal, but unfortunately I don’t have any experience with it yet to advise if it is any good. It is an option though.

Dell offers no OS laptops and desktops but sadly only for business customers. Consumers have to buy the Windows adware. You sometimes see the enterprise stuff for sale second hand with no OS too. The only specific laptop I know that consumers can buy with no OS is the Framework Laptop, which looks awesome.

This post was the first I heard of it too. I would have liked to have been counted.

Good open-source bot!

If you happen to read this, Mr. Stallman, I wish you you a swift and full recovery. We need more in this world like you. Thank you for all that you have done for the world and your tireless advocacy of Free Software!

You’re right, and anyone who thinks otherwise should check out Revolution OS. He speaks about it in detail.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k0RYQVkQmWU

If you’re in the US and care about domain privacy, don’t get a .us domain. .us domains are specifically forbidden from using domain privacy.

Are you using Route 53 for DNS? If so, would you mind sharing your monthly cost for that? Thanks again.

Thanks for the suggestion. Honestly one thing I don’t like about AWS and a lot of the major cloud vendors these days is the pricing structure isn’t very easy for me to wrap my head around and I’m never confident what I will be charged. I do have some services on AWS and so far I haven’t had any surprises but I do always have that concern. I will give Route 53 another look though.

Thanks for the detailed response! I will definitely check out unbound. Sounds perfect. And 2 cores and 2 GB RAM is exactly what I was hoping would be enough, so I can keep costs down.

All great questions! It will be a Debian Linux hosted VPS. Thanks for the input!

Check out Professor Messer on YouTube. Super professional and comprehensive exam prep videos are available on his channel for free. I relied on his videos, a flash card app, and Mike Myers CompTIA A+ study guide when I was broke and trying to get A+ certified and into the IT field. It worked out for me. I owe Professor Messer a debt of gratitude.

I can’t speak to Racknerd, but I have used a couple VPS from Ethernet Servers and they are a great value. I have a single core VPS with 3 GB RAM and 100 GB SSD for $25 per year, and another with higher specs I pay more for.

For the described scenario only one public IP is necessary. The other Nextcloud instance could have an internal IP only.

Good question! Not OP, but I’ve used the free version extensively and have no need for Plus. The free version works great and is the podcast app I recommend. That subscription price is just dumb though.

Do they pay every time someone checks out a book?