I’m a big fan of Home Assistant, and until now I only had it accessible from inside my own network. Outside access was only possible through a WireGuard VPN. This works, but isn’t very practical - definitely when I quickly want to check something, or need to diagnose something while on the road, having to toggle the VPN & hope that the DNS resolution works (which sometimes it doesn’t) - the...
I frequently listen to Off The Hook, a hacker radio show which airs on WBAI in the greater New York region. As I’m in a different continent, listening live is not practical ;)
So a while ago (four months) I migrated from Hetzner to Jotta - it’s been smooth sailing until last month, when I got a bunch of errors thrown at me.
A friend of mine gave me a Dell Perc H310 HBA nearly half a year ago which was flashed to IT-mode, which basically removes all the fancy RAID functionality from the card and turns it into a dumb HBA, just showing all the disks to the operating system. A good guide to flashing Dell Perc cards can be found on https://fohdeesha.com/docs/perc.html.
A year ago I migrated from Backblaze B2 to Hetzner Storageboxes. That worked fine, but passing over the 5TB border made my offsite storage rather expensive (again). So another round of investigations was called upon.