I’ve just had a lot more success using Caddy when it comes to things that require mod rewrites and stuff on Nginx. I dont know what they’ve done differently on the back end but the compatibility with random types of web server software seems to play nicer. Also theres Certbot integration built in which is nice.
I would buy an i5 9400 PC off eBay. Dell or Lenovo. Should be less than 200$.
Theres another webserver called Caddy that is pretty nice.
What I did is Reolink with PoE off Amazon for about 100$, with RTSP so it can be absorbed into Home Assistant. Block its mac address for internet access in your router.
Could you route through a VPN like Torguard or something?
I’d love to use it but virus total always flags it as a virus and I get too scared.
I was an idiot and bought a high end TPLink router, I can’t even use Vlans without signing up for their back door service.