Did you read breaking changes? The ports changed recently. Also looks like you’re redirecting two ports to one.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/setting-up-minecraft-srv-records-on-cloudflare-connect-via-your-domain-name/636757

It takes special setting in addition to your normal domain DNS settings.

The only proprietary battery thing I’ve come across using APC for decades was a connector that combined two standard batteries. It was attached to them and bound them together with stickers and connected to the terminals of each with normal terminal connectors. I just bought 2 standard replacement batteries and put the adapter on them. It all fit right back in and ran like new.

I agree that you would want a VPN for that. Look into something like tailscale.

Those 14TB WD drives are workhorses. I run refurbished ones in my home server and have never had any issues. And they are significantly faster than the rest of my spinning rust drives.

Some manufacturers have lower failure rates overall. But yes, you do have to mind the specific model.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-2024/

I have tried them all, it’s Navidrome. It’s actually less resources for me to run 4 instances of Navidrome for my different users than it is to use any of the other servers that allow for separate user libraries. Just make sure you alter the folder scan interval, it’s stupidly frequent by default.

I have no formal IT education. But I grew up on computers when command line was how you got things done.

I switched to cloud flare because of the downtime duckdns has. Sometimes it can get really bad.