Maybe give cloudflared a try. Works for me even with nextcloud’s ssl (don’t think there’s a way to start NC without the self-signed cert). Couldn’t get it to work with NPM (I admittedly don’t know much about nginx) so I brought in the big gun(s).

Backblaze b2, borgbase.com. There are also programs like dejadup that will let you backup to popular cloud drives. The alternatives are limitless.

I’ve hosted invidious relatively easy for a while now. Simple UI and just works. If anyone needs my compose and config setup, reply and I’ll post it.

They provide the best balance for efficiency. Not too powerful enough to be a workhorse and not to weak to run multiple simple applications/services. NUCs are great in that they come with hardware video acceleration tech that’s highly optimized for media transcoding.

For accessing your VPN network outside of your LAN, there’s the shadowsocks option in the gluetun wiki.

Jellyfin, AdGuard Home, Nextcloud, Syncthing, Invidious, SearxNG

No worries. I ended up writing a systemd service that restarts the npm container a minute after the watchtower runs. I don’t know why I didn’t think of that earlier but I guess it’s a much simpler solution than using depends_on with npm which hosts a lot of my other services.

I want to restart the NPM container (when the searxng service goes down) instead of searxng.

Doesn’t seem like this will do what I want.

Doesn’t. Not automated.