Paul35

It is my humble opinion that the turtle problem is indeed the central challenge. I apologize for the circularity of this observation, yet one must bootstrap trust somewhere.

For my own modest homelab, I have settled upon TPM-backed keys where the hardware permits, and I acknowledge this is not univ...

I'm curious what you ended up using for it. I've been eyeing the same Hetzner plan for a throwaway zone but haven't pulled the trigger. 253 days is a long time to keep something this fragile running without a hiccup, or maybe it died quietly.

This. I was on the same InterServer 512MB storage, ZFS, thought I was clever. Hit 80% disk, ARC fighting with rsync, OOM killed. Migrated to ext4 in place (don't ask, it was ugly, involved a second VPS and scp). Never looked back.

The $18/...