I’ve run Nextcloud several ways, the smoothest, easiest and most powerful being the official image by Hanssen IT. Run that in a VM and use their setup/update scripts to do all the hard work. I highly recommend.

I’m on Vodafone here in the UK (CityFibre), and they let me use my own firewall to the ONT, and give me a static IP for no extra cost. It’s a PPPoE connection with a VLAN id. With work recently I’m using about 5-6TB monthly data. I should count my blessings for their service given all I’ve read here!

I had issues with connectivity around 2020 and they wouldn’t engage with any help troubleshooting it unless I used their provided router, which was a pita, but a few days of speed tests and they escalated it and fixed it.

Just to say I’ve tried this today and love it. Was running Authelia but wasn’t happy with the way it was configured. I spun up VoidAuth in about 5mins and am impressed. Running as basic auth for a Caddy reverse proxy, this feels very slick. Well done!

Easy to follow documentation as well. Less is more sometimes.

I like the way you have it checking SMTP credentials in the background with a simple ‘this is not configured properly’ on the UI.

I started with pfsense on Virtualbox, then quickly moved that to HyperV on Windows, where I had 3 locations running this as their routers for almost 2 years, even through COVID when I couldn’t get to some locations. I never had a single issue, just got annoyed at the constant Windows updates rebooting the systems and internet going down when it did. One of these sites ran over a 4G modem, that I connected to a VPS that I could tunnel down to access it remotely.

I then moved these sites to Untangle, still on Hyper V, then for own use, moved off VM onto baremetal on an HP Elitedesk 800 with 10GbE card that cost about £100 total, which ran wonderfully until Untangle got sold out and made me switch to…

…OPNSense on the same Elitedesk (after reading about PFSenses silly games they played), and this ran perfectly for about 18 months, and with solid 1Gbps on Wireguard, then after all these years of messing with routers, I finally switched to a Unifi UDM Pro SE last year and I couldn’t be happier. It does all I need, plus also CCTV recording (away from Blue Iris). I no longer have to worry that my DIY routers are going to fail on me. The other sites moved to ISP supplied modem/routers.

So, I would recommend Unifi hardware, despite it not being open source, mainly because, well, internet is a crucial service, especially in my household. And the UDM does WAN fail over well with my backup 4G modem. I can get it to do anything I need it to by just studying the GUI, I don’t need to read loads of info like I did with OPnSense etc.

I did once however, move from PFSense to Untangle on a remote machine. Because Untangle had a GUI, I fired up a VM on the same Windows machine as PFSense, set it all up with the same NIC settings, then adjusted Hyper V so that the Untangle VM booted and the PfSense one didn’t, then rebooted the machine and waited nervously for a few minutes, then boom, up popped the Untangle router! It felt good getting that done. It was only at my parents house, but still, it required a 90min journey if it failed.

With all the drama of Windows 11 in recent years, I’m glad I switched away from HyperV when I did.