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Back in 2015 I got a great Black Friday deal through WiredTree for $56/mo.

Fully Managed
MIchigan US
CentOS 7, 64-bit
cPanel (Admin 5)
2 Cores
4GB RAM
100GB Pure SSD
20TB Bandwidth
Root Access
2 Dedicated IPv4 Access

Eventually WT was purchased by LiquidWeb, and since then the price has risen to $105/mo.

As you can see it’s pretty outdated, and been experiencing more errors over time. I have been looking into other options. A current LiquidWeb plan for the same price would be;

Fully Managed
Michigan US
AlmaLinux 9
InterWorx Panel
4 Cores
8GB RAM
240GB NVMe SSD
5TB Bandwidth
10GB Network
Unmetered Inbound
DDoS Protection
Root Access
Dedicated IP Access

As you can see, it’s more modern and better overall other than the bandwidth, which I never used 20TB/mo.

Would there be anything better out there, for around the same price?

Usage: 2 Wordpress Sites, Forum (was IPB, but probably move to Flarum).

I’d like to move away from Windows for my home server, I get some say Windows is easy and it just works, and was the reason I used it to begin with, also the fact that I know it, however just tired of some of the annoyances that seem to come and go with updates and reboots, etc.

I’d like something that has a GUI and still has the Desktop experience and somewhat easy to use and learn moving away from Windows. I’m pretty tech savvy and whatever I don’t know can easily pickup from videos or other introductions.

I was thinking Linux Mint, or Pop!_OS?

Love to get some options and opinions!

System:
CPU: Intel Core i5-12600K @ 3700GHz 10 Cores
RAM: 32GB DDR4 @ 3600MHz CL18
Motherboard: ASROCK Z690 Extreme DDR4
GPU: Intel UHD 770
Storage: 12TB x2 HDD 7200RPM (24TB) + 1TB NVMe (OS) (NTFS Format)
Current OS: Windows 11 Pro

Media Servers:
Plex (Movies + TV + Music),

Torrent/VPN:
Transmission + ProtonVPN

Future ARR Stack:
Sonarr (TV), Radarr (Movies), Lidarr (Music), Readarr (Books), Bazarr (Subtitles), Prowlarr (Indexer), Overseerr (Plex Req), Jellyseerr (Jellyfin Req), Notifiarr (Notification/Monitor)

Future Apps:
Jellyfin (Movies + TV)
Navidrome (Music)
Audiobookshelf (Audio Books + Podcasts)
Self-Hosted Cloud Drive (From Family Phones - Photos + Videos) (Immich?)
Self-Hosted Shareable Drive (Multi-User, Photos + Videos + Documents) (Owncloud?)

Purchased a used V50, great condition but looks like it’s a test version? Is there nothing I can do with this other than leave it as is? I only plan on using it as a DAP so don’t need many apps or cell.

Android System
Serial console enabled
Performance is impacted. To disable, check bootloader.

Watermark on screen
userdebug
9.60.16(96001600)

Android 12

Kernel version
4.14.190
Ige@android-build

Build number
flashlm_lao_com-userdebug 12 SKQ1.211103.001
221082202b3b4 test-keys

Software version
V450VM3F1

Software status
Modified