I'm a bit of a long time lurker, first time poster. I've picked up a few VPS from leb offers, and a few domains. I've set wordpress up on one of them to mess about with, and one of them is running my irssi session. Does anyone have any suggestions around any of the following?
sickbeard/sabnzbd/plex media server - the latter two want to remain at home with the storage and a host which can do HD transcoding, is there any benefit to moving sickbeard to a remote host?
I use simplenote a lot. Are there any open source alternatives with a supporting iOS app? If so what benefits are there to using them other than cost?
I use dropbox and it's integration with a bunch of other stuff which might be quite complicated to replicate, but are there any similar sort of things others have found useful that do similar/related things?
I get a VPN service free with another product and it's fine for what i use it for and already covers all the locations i have and more, though i'm thinking of setting one up temporarily so I have a better idea how it works. Are there any advantages to rolling your own?
I've looked at a few web based terminals too and I'd like to try setting one up. I'd like to be able to access it via the proxy at work; live demos have shown me some work and others don't so does anyone have any recommendations? It'd be used to login to my home network or other remote servers for basic admin, and maybe run a few CLI things locally.
For a bit of background, I've been working with vmware based virtualisation for ~5 years but mostly only supporting up to the hypervisor layer and limited support for windows OS applications. I use a mix of windows, osx and linux at home and used linux based lab PCs through uni. With the aid of google I'd guess that makes me 'somewhat competent', but i've not had any experiencee of apache or nginx beyond restarting services. I'm open to either suggestions which would help me learn something of interest, or things that would just be productive or more efficient than what i already use.
IF tl;dr THEN I have some VPSs, i'm looking for something to do with them beyond hosting web sites/pages.