That got a knowing nod and a chuckle out of me.

The thought just struck me that there may be who knows how many of these out in the wild. Little ‘touch stones’ that people use across a global internet.

I generally try to ride the DDR3 cap as far as equipment. IIRC Intel 8th gen Coffee Lake require DDR4. DDR3 is cheap. So there is a trade off yes, but you’re right, it would be more efficient. When I finally build me a new computer, I will go all the way to DDR5, or whatever is the latest and greatest at that time. The T320 is a great server, it just drinks some electricity. The money I save on electricity, I could pay for another 7020. LOL Thought about selling the T320 on ebay, but I doubt someone would want to pay what it would cost to ship a boat anchor. Maybe CraigsList, local pickup.

I think I found the source of the icanhazip.com block. From the Github Issues page:

2025-03-27 17:00:02] production.ERROR: Failed to fetch external IP address. [“cURL error 60: SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target hostname ‘icanhazip.com’ (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://icanhazip.com/”]

Thanks for being upfront about AI involvement. I’m not sure I need an AI powered expense splitting app however, I damn sure wished I had the skills to build one. LOL Thanks for sharing.

Now? I wonder what was the prohibitive cause before?

Homarr

ETA: If you want to go nuts with integrations, HomePage seems to be the rage.

I don’t think so. The Vercel link just redirects me to vendor HIPAA comparison stuff

That happened right after the OP posted that link. Worked for maybe a couple hours and then…poof

The easiest way for me to show you is just a screen shot of my dashboard:

I’ve added a couple since that screen grab.

Nice! Rock on with yo’ bad self.

some “IoT” devices also use it for some reason

I haven’t conducted a thorough investigation, but the last container I added was SpeedTest Tracker and I am assuming that it’s using icanhazip.com and ifconfig.co to determine the best test servers based on my locale. I chose my own servers when I set it up. For the time being, I have both blocked and nothing seems to complain. SpeedTest Tracker still crons ever hour with success.

Suricata picked it up on the LAN side. I haven’t done an in depth review, but I am suspecting that SpeedTest Tracker is using icanhazip.com and ifconfig.co to check my ip and find the most appropriate test server. It’s on the list tho. For now I have them blocked and nothing seems to complain about it. I chose my own servers.

I know this is probably “the usual” for everyone here, but I’m genuinely excited that I managed to get it all running smoothly.

Heh! Don’t let anyone dampen your enthusiasm. It feels great when I am toiling away at something and finally all the pieces click together. I might have to walk away a few times and put the project on hold, but I keep whacking away at it. When it does work, it’s always a childish joy that comes over me and always gets a fist-pump.

What equipment are you running that Windows Server on?

Wow! It certainly a small world after all.

Interestingly enough, ifconfig.co shows up too. I knew about ifconfig.co tho. Since the last container I added was SpeedTest Tracker to replace OpenSpeedTest, and that’s about the time icanhazip.com showed up, I am assuming SpeedTest Tracker is using both ifconfig.co and icanhazip.com to determine the local external IP and the closest test servers to it. The request is originating from the LAN. However, I selected my own servers I wanted to use based on my locale, so blocking either hasn’t stopped SpeedTest Tracker from doing it’s tests on an hourly basis.

Really curious to see how deep in the gutter my mind is.

LMAO! I have always thought it did.

Interesting. Never heard of Clevis & Tang. I just type the passphrase in on boot for the LUKs drives, and the same for anything Bitlocker. So, I guess they’d have to get the ol’ pipe wrench out.

Recently I decommissioned a Dell T320 and replaced it with a Dell Optiplex 7020 SFF with the i7-4790 and 32 GB RAM all for right at the $200 mark. I’m running a total of 52 containers on it right now with load averages looking like 0.31, 0.51, 0.72. The Dell T320 running the same 52 containers cost me $40 USD per month to run. The Dell 7020 costs me $5-8 USD per month to run 24/7. If you wanted a wider tower, I set up a Dell 9020 for a friend of mine’s son who wanted to get into selfhosting at the age of 10. Similar running costs. I’ve got an Optiplex 3020 mini with 16 GB RAM and a 4 TB external drive running Proxmox quite well and costs probably $3 USD per month. I’m pretty well chuffed with the performance so far of the 7020, and in fact am eyeballing another one to replace a second Dell T320.

IIRC there used to be a ~700 TB torrent called ‘a car’.

I would never trust that much data to a single drive.

Bingo. I’ve toasted a 10 TB drive before and I still get emotional about it.