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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 3 weeks ago
If you want to have VMs as well, Proxmox is the to-go thing in selfhosting. Maybe your supermicro even has two network interfaces and can have a virtualized firewall or the like.
Not quite sure about your services go sleep thing. Ideally, services won’t use much CPU while idling, but certainly RAM. You can probably build something like you described, but it’s mostly not “a thing” afaik.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ah so i might be thinking leaving a service running is worse than it actually is then?
The motherboard has two networks ports and a card with another two. There’s also some fibre ports but i imagine I’ll never end up using them haha.
I don’t actually really know much about firewalls at all yet though
eutampieri@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
For the firewall you can try OPNsense or OpenWrt
Chewie@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
I rate OPNsense. I’ve not tried pfsense, but I use Enterprise-level firewalls daily. When you’re used to Palo Alto, Cisco or CheckPoint firewalls, it is a lot harder to use, and the interface isn’t great, and had fewer features, but for free (and cheap support if you need it), it’s pretty amazing. Upgrading to new versions is seamless, and once when something happened and it broken, I reinstalled it from the .ISO, uploaded my backed up .xml config file, and it was back to normal. It’s more than adequate to use for my home internet connection and all the services I run in my DMZ etc.