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I looked into my options really carefully when choosing my phone last year. Few things to note, when looking for an Android phone:

• Make sure it’s either a pixel or a Snapdragon powered phone. This just means that if the manufacturer does some stupid stuff, there is a higher probability of your phone having a custom rom.
• Stay away from Samsung if you want to install custom roms, they are really against it.
• Pick a manufacturer of good build quality and software updates being stable, some manufacturers just half as them and brick the phone/ damage display/motherboard because they pushed update with wrong voltage.
• if you want a basic phone and don’t really care about the most beautiful photos or do heavy mobile gaming, just pick a cheap phone, it will be more than enough.

The phone I picked was Moto G52, it cost me ~150USD and it is one of the best phone experiences I’ve had. It lasts me 2-3 days on a charge, mostly because I do close to nothing on it just answering calling/messages and some basic internet surfing. For my purpose, it is better than a top end iPhone/Android phone.

Motorola is quite slow with updates, but the community is great and created and are now maintaing custom roms, which means I get the latest software updates quite regularly. The camera is passable, but the speakers they are loud like really really loud, louder almost all smartphone.

Bonus points: it has a headphone jack.

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Their enterprise stuff works like a charm on Linux

I’m not sure if that is the best/correct way to do it.

What you should have probably done is use the server_name property to point to your Apex/Main domain.

https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#server_name

I highly recommend that you to go through the documentation throughly atleast once, especially if you will be hosting the server for a long period of time.

I had you till you got to running your blog on google sites. Like not even blogger, but straight up google sites. As someone who tried using google sites for this purpose, I wrote one post and I was like, not doing it, it is too much.

You need to set the following in your homeserver.yaml :

serve_server_wellknown: true

read more here: https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#serve_server_wellknown

Also remember to restart your container.

First step would be to ensure that you can do port forwarding.

1. Check if your IP address isn’t a private one or CGNAT.
2. Now set up reverse proxy and try connecting to your service. If it connects, you are okay.
3. Now this is something i didn’t know could happen but it did end up happening to me. I was happily port forwarding for a few months, until suddenly my port forwarding stopped working. Now I called my ISP, they said they did nothing(my ISP is a few guys who have no Idea about what they are doing, the other option to them is 512kbps DSL connection) at this point all my ingress ports are blocked and even outgoing ssh is blocked. Then the new month starts and everything is working again. I looked at my ISP website to get an idea of what may have caused this and the case seems to be that it was the first time I crossed 100GB in uploading. So my ISP has configured things such a way that port forwarding only works for the first 100GB of uploading.

This is why I strongly recommend cloudfare tunnel or any other similar solution.