I like how everyone is acting like it is normal to have this in self hosted

The problem lies in the board and the company culture

They’ve gone though enough CEOs for me to suspect that there is a bigger issue.

Firefox was doomed decades ago

They had a lot of market share and then promptly lost it

It is a matter of when

Nothing lasts forever

Until they revoke it

Tailscale and Netbird are foss software so they can always be forked. There are also. alternatives like Wireguard and Hyperspace. (Never tried hyperspace)

People use Plex?

True management material

Realistically you shouldn’t depend on a single place for backups

Remember 3-2-1. Three places, two mediums and one offsite

Those are Apples and Oranges

It is ok to admit you are wrong. Fedora wasn’t always the project it is today and at one point it was purely for testing. I get the impression that you’ve either never used Fedora or haven’t used it in a very long time.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/

Not everyone needs the latest stable of everything. That’s ok but I also didn’t just list Fedora. It is just a option to consider if you want a up to date system that’s well tested.

Have you even used Fedora recently? It is well tested and focused on being beginner friendly. That wasn’t always the case but it changed a few years ago.

Fedora better than Ubuntu in a lot of ways

Also with Fedora 42 there is a entirely new installer so it is much easier to setup.

The trade off with Fedora is that has a support window of only a year

There are also Rocky and Alma

I honestly would use a headless Linux system with docker compose. You can find premade docker compose files.

Anything but Ubuntu for the most part

Mint, Fedora, Rocky or whatever else

I would start with a premade docker compose file. From there learn how to tweak it.

Docker has very little overhead

No, chroot is kind of its own thing

It is just a kernel namespace

That’s is absolutely true

Avoid exposing things unless you really need to and follow best practices.