I replaced my old 1gbs router with a 2.5gbs one from Protectli! It has coreboot which was the ultimate deciding factor for me, even though it came at a premium.

Installing OpenWRT wasn’t difficult, but configuring it correctly to use all the ports took some retries.

I also have been trying to install a pixelfed instance of my own on Podman, but no luck so far; I keep failing at the image building part. I wish they would release images of their own.

Thanks for the reply. Looking at this project now. What reverse proxy did you use? I have regular caddy already as a reverse proxy for other projects and I am wondering how I could use it here as well.

Powerloss might happen as I don’t have a ups.

And when it comes to mdadm, it just happens to be the first and only redundancy tool I know. I am however open to learn and try new things.

ZFS seems interesting, but: I read that ZFS would require quite a lot of RAM, and I was going for 32 GBs only, would it be enough?

What are the advantages of this over mdadm raid and bcache?

Are there some advantages of btrfs over raid? I understand how raid works but btrfs for redundancy is foreign to me.