Because it’s “easier” to support Windows from a business perspective and it’s easier on users to use Windows as most already do use it and thus need no additional training/decreases support tickets.

I’m a small business environment it’s much easier to manage with Linux but you still need an OK Linux admin on staff.

Once you start scaling up on paper Linux certainly works but there are a lot of factors that most people (such as yourself) don’t consider.

This is coming from a pure Linux admin working on a mixed Enterprise environment where 99% of the infra is windows

I don’t see how thats relevant.

Depends on which tracker. In general though invites and you get invites by association with relevant groups. Sometimes open registration occurs (though rarely) an other times the trakcer may do interviews.

It mostly comes down to time and patience.

If I’m supposed to be reading that top comment I don’t see where you state what your results were. You apparently “had errrors” but neglected to note any down and now “you don’t” have errors.

Replace existing online services you use with self hosted ones.

Replace existing online services you use with self hosted ones.

This it should be no issue for you to copy and paste that answer in our conversation.

And what exactly happens?

You tried what exactly earlier today?

I do exactly this as well.

Symlinks likely wouldn’t work for a torrent, because that’s more like a shortcut; The symlink doesn’t actually point to the file, it just points to another filepath.

They are kinda like a shortcut but they are resolved directly by the filesystem and in the fast majority of cases should work perfectly fine if done correctly. In OPs case I’d probably leave the original file intact and create the link at the new desired destination.

You can’t have a hardlink for your C: drive on your D: drive

Thats why I didn’t recommend hardlinks. But I misread OPs post and I see the data will all live on the same drive so I revise my original suggestion and also recommend hardlinks.

But a torrent client likely won’t be able to handle the “oh actually you need to go visit location B” instructions, and will just crash/freeze/refuse to seed.

You’re just pulling that out of your ass.

*all of this is largely under the context of linux but should translate to windows

Symlinks? Pretty sure that exists on windows.

Why not just run a reverse proxy container on the server hosting the rest?

Care to cite your sources in that claim? I’m know they are far from anything that could be considered “good” but “worse than cigs” is news to me.

I have static IPs. That is going to be a required item for hosting email.

My main point is that it is seemingly impossible to tell what Microsoft has and has not shit listed because may operate their own internal list which isn’t published.

I’m somewhat of the opinion though that more people should self host email and try to be a thorn in the side of these corps implementing arbitrary rules. If more people aren’t receiving email more reports about I will be generated and that will hopefully result in more people like us getting our email successfully delivered.

Well I have some hardware colocated at a DC so I can’t speaktoo much about cost plus IP reputation. I can also only rely on individual IP blacklist checking. If MS has decided on their own to blacklist an entire subnet there isn’t much to be done about that.

Well my IP isn’t on any blacklists but I can’t speak on getting whitelistred" by providers. I can send to gmail without going to spam. Idon’t generally send much email though.

Is self hosting a valid answer?

I host my own email.

A good adblocker like ublock origin would bit download the ad. It is just as effective as DNS based blocking (pi-hole) with the added feature of also being able to do script blocking and cosmesic blocking.