Can confirm that zigbee is much better for IOT things, I find the zigbee stuff is quicker to react to events as there is not WiFI setup. Some WiFi devices running on batterys will have lag while they get WiFi link back up.

First off, backups of the configs any user data that you can’t torrent should the inevitable happen.

Then set time aside to do updates, I spend Wednesday evenings updating and improving my setup.

Then find a way to track update announcements, I use both an RSS reader and newrealeases.io to know when something I run gets an update

What I can tell you, working for a company hosting data for the UK NHS.

Is that hosting is easy, I have a very reliable homelab. I keep things up to date and make sure to secure things the best I can.

But security is hard, there are many things to secure. Blind spots you didn’t even know you had.

The bast way to look at security, it to start with secure and dial things back so that it works.

With let’s encrypt and DNS APIs, theres no excuse not to have a real certificate!

More so if you want to have that service interacte with other systems not your own

Yes you can use lemmy apps to access a self hosted instance, but you will need a real certificate for that to work.

A quick check of Lemmy.rip show it has a self signed certificate, thats not going to allow you to access it easily and my even stop federation from working.

You should be able to get a lets encrypt certificate very easily.

I have my home assistant check and also my nagios, better safe then sorry

Or a git repo and ansible/semaphore, thats how I manage my docker services. I have a git repo with all my configs and compose files (not in github, but my own server), then in semaphore I have a playbook to update a compose or swarm stack.