Wordpress, as mentioned, should cover you for most things, but you have to realise that Wordpress is getting more and more commercialised every day and cheap hosting is probably worse than a bad wordpress site. You can search for free plugins and theme inside wordpress for example, but if you really want to go white label then you will need to look at your own themes or modifying one to suit

oh and then there is truenas which will do all that you want and allows installation of things like plex and/or jellyfin automagically

If you go down that route then look at zfs which will allow you some redundancy (like raid) raidz1 can tolerate 1 drive dying and radz2 can tolerate 2, but obviously it is not 100% though I have never had a drive failure corrupt a zfs pool in like 10 years, and replacing a drive is easy. This question has, I’m afraid, many answers. zfs on a 3 drive system would run nicely though, and zfs is supported by Ubuntu. But of course we are talking different ways to do things, and this is part of the fun of self hosting!

I agree but I do have to say that Yunohost is becoming bloated. Successive versions run way slower than they used to - I know it is part of the security and ease of use but it is becoming noticeable. You can also use some docker things in yunohost but for an absolute beginner Yunohost is by far the best way to do it.

RK3588 consumes less at idle and full power. I said more power hungry and it is exactly that. The n100/150 can be twice as power hungry when on load, you can spin anything if you want but they consume a lot more. Add in extras and it can add up to quite a lot more hungry, I have seen certain n150 setups use 4 times a similar setup on an RK3588 board for example - that is a significant difference

Pretty sure you’d be better of with a tunnel like Cloudflare Tunnels, Tailscale, or something similar. They couldn’t care less if your ip address changes. Of course Cloudflare is a big corp and doesn’t fit your bill but it’s the idea I mean not the corp and it is probably the most well known

You’d be miles better off with a mini pc with an intel processor than an RK3588 SoC. Drivers are sketchy at best whilst an N100 or similar will just work, plus they will easily take an ssd and other hardware much easier. Yes more power hungry but way easier to work with unless you want to tear your hair out with silly things. OrangePi are decent boards, for example, but they are way behind even a Pi for software support. If you must go ARM I wouldn’t look past a Pi5, a decent one with a HAT for nvme/m.2 should do the job

Can’t charge at home here and no public chargers nearby either…

I’m guessing you are in the US as here in the UK more are against EVs than for them because charging costs out and about are higher than ICE cars and Teslas are pretty much hated, and they have by far and away the best charging network. My wife is disabled and believe me having an EV is way harder then because even silly things like the public chargers being as far away from service stations and amenities means it is counter-productive. We will never be able to charge at our current home either - it is banned in the contract

Oh it just doesn’t like it as much as SMB… has work mandated VPN on it for starters! I use a truenas box for most of the backups etc. and I just share the same dataset via SMB and NFS and locally only, so it is sorted, but NFS on the Win 11 box is just way flakier and drops often

I still have to use SAMBA as Win 11 hates NFS with a passion and we have Win 11 boxes here supplied as work machines so no changing. Also wifeys gaming rig is Windows as she don’t want to mess around getting stuff to work…
But hey - for everything else it is NFS with all of its weirdness, but it just works a bit better than SMB

Best AI beer the world has ever seen!

Most of my car friends won’t touch an EV still here in the UK because the infrastructure isn’t good enough, and those same friends won’t touch a Chinese car either. Only a few have tried Tesla and all have got rid. Currently in the UK if you are a company car person you’d be mad not to get an EV as they are subsidised so much, but equally mad to get one as your only personal car as the charging network is shocking still. When here it is MORE expensive to charge an EV whilst out and about than fuel a petrol car something is seriously wrong

Apple managed it… though plenty won’t want Apple silicon in their pcs as in Windows. Plus Windows for ARM or whatever it is called this hour is shocking still

Plenty of better DNS services out there…

It is a real pain, I host a small email service, and spend at least an hour a day dealing with issues sending emails.Mainly because users think it is entirely acceptable to send thousands of emails a day thinking they will get results from it. However, I have to say that I am telling most people to move away from email as it isn’t that secure and those free email addresses from old ISPs are terribly insecure. Also seeing a lot of data stolen as people think 2FA via email is great, so hackers just hack the email server and boom

For me Cloudflare as I’ve been with them for years, Let’s Encrypt and that is pretty much it…

VPS that hosts my email and a few other things, and for clients that is where their stuff is hosted

I run a linkstack instance but it’s not federated as such - and as said I cannot see the real advantage of doing so as they are just a page(s) of links. However linkstack can be pretty, is easy to maintain a list and runs as a docker container…

https://linkstack.relayeasy.com/@3dcadmin

Despite it getting a bit of a scattered mess, I still love Nextcloud as it can pretty much provide everything I want in a cloud service. Currently running via a yunohost setup because upgrading is way, way easier but I might migrate it to a truenas setup OR a docker container just because. The advantage of going truenas is that it is my main storage system with backup etc. but the disadvantage is if something goes wrong (I do have a backup to the backups ahem and it does have raidz1 so I should be resistant to some errors)
We shall see…

Meta actually leading the way with something, however negative it is!

Like I said - each to their own. truecharts the apps are pretty much known to be more unstable as well, says that everywhere in the documentation. Truenas if it’s up to date, using their app catalogue with stable selected is pretty rock solid for everyone.