I just do web hosting for clients sites and use Kuma to monitor uptime and SSL certificates.

Ive got multiple Kuma’s running as well.

I’ve been using uptime Kuma recently and it’s great but works better outside of docker.

Inside docker I’d get a lot of false down positives from I assume docker throttling the checks.

Plus it works with email, telegram, and matrix chat alerts. I monitor all my clients sites with it, and it’s bullet proof behind caddy.

I just run Linux directly and skip windows for almost everything.

cd c:\folder

ls Command not found

Every Fn Time , now they add sudo?

Same I’ve had great luck with pop, it found my brother color laser and even installed my hp latex 260. I’d never print to that directly though.

Username checks out 😁

That’s how my old coworkers would make more coffee at work, same filter, just keep scooping new coffee on top, and run it again 🤢

When you run into something vocabulary wise you don’t understand, Google is your friend just keep googling and reading to get the gist, Google any error messages too, I’m 43, I’ve been googling my whole life as a big fraud in IT, jk

But seriously Google Google Google has all the answers and as you use it more you hone your search skills to the point where you just scroll past the crap and wham find things right away. The more you search and work with the stuff the better you’ll get way more comfortable. Maybe try and find a local friend who’s good with computers or search that can help you a bit

I’ve helped many friends fix and troubleshoot stuff from time to time, but I’m not anyone’s full time IT, I work on retainer.

I don’t know everything but every day I learn, even stuff I’ll never have to use again.

I do IT consulting Reiners.io , if you want paid help no problem, but it does turn into a huge free time sink, with no reward.

Source: retired 15 year Linux systems engineer and sysadmin, turned consultant at https://reiners.io $60/hr minimum I charge clients much more, including my old boss, who’s at $110/h but I bring my laptop to Hawaii for that guy, so he pays for access to me in 80 hr blocks.

It is freaking expensive and few people will want to do it for free.

Does Linksys still have their velop line? Back when I rented I used to use them as wireless bridges, at the time they were way faster than my Internet was… I believe they handle jussst about gig probably way more now with wifi 6 .

I’d use them to jump network segments around the house, they worked great.

Each floor had a switch wired to it with All devices from that floor.

They’d use a dedicated 5g backhaul ( extra wifi radios ) to link them together exactly like mesh networks work. Or you could plug switches or even just an Xbox into their Ethernet port and the whole network was accessable like it was wired.

I used to use the 3 wifi pack, and id put one on each floor directly above the other on each floor of my 3000 sq foot home at the time.

I’m pretty sure it was expensive, but most mesh systems will work this way, and usually the two radios do not interfere with each other so speeds were good.

I also bought actual wireless bridges, maybe tplink, and they were fine but they’d randomly crash after heavy BitTorrent use back then, velop was always solid for me, but now I use unifi dream machine se, and drill holes so I can get 10gig with my 2 gig fiber

Or even better (cheaper and easier) I’ve also run cat 6 along the outside of the houses I rented with black plenum cable, using the existing coax taca, I’d cut the coax In rooms I didn’t need, I was cable modem, streaming TV only so only needed eth where the modem was and run my Ethernet outside to different parts of the house for about 6 years zero problems, in South Dakota, USA since I my area, cable and satellite guys installed everyone’s homes that way. So I’d use their plate location and just punch it down, and add a faceplate.