Lire, for years now.

Can’t say enough good things about ProxMox. Pair it with Proxmox Backup Server and you’re golden. If you/an upgrade breaks something, just restore that LXC/VM from backup. Can’t pay enough for that kind of peace of mind. And PBS will take care of deduplication, retention and verification.

Nginx from day one. Well documented, it works. If something doesn’t work chances are you are a quick googlefu away from the solution.

Yes BUT while booting from SSD. Anything write/read intensive will shred your SD card in a matter of months.

Actual.

Tried most of them about a year ago and then it was best for my needs. Situation could be different now but for me Actual still works great.

YMMV

For me 2x local pihole + unbound works great. I also have pihole + unbound running on a VPS exposed to my tailnet, serving as a backup when my home changes IP or goes offline.

This!

When you realise that most of hosted ones make articles as read after 30 days it makes you wanna throw someone through the window.

Ask any of the people he axed.

Went all in with UniFi some time back. No regrets.

Currently running a few U6s. No real motivation to upgrade to U7s.