That sucks. Personally, I wouldn’t selfhost financial applications. I don’t need that headache with my money or someone else’s either. I hope you find a solution.

No worries. I use Square for my businesses, but they are not self hosted. They do take their skim off the top, but that’s a cost of doing business.

That’s all I got bro. I tried.

There seems to be quite a few of them

I also found https://piprapay.com/

Payram?

Throw the second switch!

Btop is my favorite top of all the tops. I run it regularly just to scope how things are processing.

That’s pretty wild man. Reminds me of a while ago, a lot of people got busted locally for selling loaded Kodi boxes at the flea market. I bought one out of mild curiosity from a greasy individual who I could tell wasn’t the front man of the operation. Anyway, I booted it an ran wireguard against it. I don’t have the skill this guy does in the video, but what I did see were a lot…a lot…of sketchy Chinese ip addresses. So, i shut it down and it resides in the junk bin.

I found this interesting: https://safereddit.com/r/vSeeBox/comments/1hhibu0/vseebox_for_real/

Particularly this comment:

u/Fun-Device-9702
Apr 14 '25

I got a couple strange emails that were definably spam after hooking one up, so I wonder if there some kind of back door program working on these.

What are you trying to observe? Just the server and applications? Traffic?

Netata will give you just about every metric you could possibly use for a server. However and anecdotally, netdata seems to spawn a ton of zombie processes (https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565) which was quite annoying.

If you’re going for server traffic observability , I recommend ntopng. It’s pretty comprehensive.

I don’t preclude them, I’m just expressing my taste.

after the initial shock wears off.

Your shock or mine? The problem is akin to females that protest the patriarchy by taking off their clothes in public. I never seems to be any of the beautiful people.

On that site: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse - Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?

The max amount of people I want in a bathtub is 2.

The mouse did not survive interrogation. Also mouse not pictured.

I thought it was the huge heat sink that looks like it extends past the side plane of the cover. Reminds me of something I did with a CoolAir Cosmos tower. I mounted two 300 cfm fans over each CPU and took the side panel, neatly cut out the area around the fans, then 3d printed a scoop, with a slot for filtration, to fit on the side panel and allow the fans to breathe.

The part I quoted was one of their many tries. It seems now, after changing out the solar panel and battery, that they have greatly improved over 95.2%.

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Well, the article did go on to provide better stats once they changed out the panel and battery:

Since then, the uptime has been 100% (March to September 2020), even though we have added a lot of content by making the website multilingual. This is due to the larger (brand new) battery but also to the better orientation of the smaller solar panel. The battery’s capacity will decline over time, so the higher storage capacity will make it last longer. If the uptime remains 100% through the winter 2020/2021, we will probably downgrade to a 20W solar panel.

At current HDD prices, that’d buy a lot of beer.

Over a period of roughly one year (351 days, from 12 December 2018 to 28 November 2019) the server was up for 95.26% of the time. This means that we were offline for 399 hours (which corresponds to 16.64 days).

Not bad at all really, at least for non-mission critical sites. I have solar and I really like it. Solar power on two barns, and a lot of my security cams run on solar. I’m not sure if it’s the formatting of this site, or the grainy pictures, but it oddly reminds me of the Trojan Room coffee pot.

I have two server room dogs. An English pit, which is my seizure dog, and a Jack Russel. They shed, especially in the summer months, and the floor sweeper gets a daily work out, as well as keeping it out of equipment enclosures. It’s not that I hate cats, they are nice as a pet in your house, just not mine. LOL