I would recommend an LDAP sever for user Auth.

There you can create/authenticate user with a central repo in a machine independent fashion. Also having the possibility to allow /egate specific services from the central database is a big plus.

It seems difficult at the very beginning but it quickly pays off. Give it a try

Yes, definitely you will get a better deal going with a home made solution here.

Buuuut, there is an important point to highlight: The probability of synology fucking your data up is much lower than the average selfhoster. Unless you already know almost perfectly pros, cons, and how to solve problems without a data loss, you are not better than the average.

As an example, I went with a synology box even if I consider myself better than the average because the data in my nas is extremely (but really extremely) important to me and my wife. And the price was a reasonable fine in order to keep that data safe.

So, evaluate yourself : if. The data is really important and you are not a really good sysadmin then go with a professional solution. If not then go in DIY solution and learn in the process.

Just my two cents

Totally overkill if you cut the specs to the half I have the feeling they are still overkill

The only point are the hdds and the mass storage, I can not decide if it is a lot or not, but for your list I would say that you can even go one order of magnitude down. But it mainly depends if the number of Linux isos you want to archive

My points are totally in the other direction:

• stable, this is critic, if the app is not able to performs its duties with. 2 weeks uptime, then it is bad. This also applies to random failures. I don’t want to spend endless days to fix it
• docker, with a all-in-image, and as a nice to have the possibility to connect external docker composes for vpn, or databases
• a moderate use of resources, not super critic, but nobody likes to have ram problems

And then as a second league that lean the balance:

• integration with LDAP or any central user repo
• relatively easy to backup and restore
• relatively low level of break changes from version to version
• the gui / ease of use (in like with the complexity of the problem I want to address)
• sane use of defaults and logging capabilities

That’s all from my side

Totally agree with the first point, it is a limitation, and the guest wifi sticking to a eth port is just a patch. One that works but still a patch.

But I don’t see the point of the prefixes. What do you mean? I also have a custom domain and a local dns server y can use the domain even internally. I just simple ignore that…

Fritzbox boxes.

They tick all the checkboxes

• good standards support (including dect protocol if you want to have an ip phone or even iot protocols)
• fast wifi speeds
• cheap (at least for the second hand in ebay)
• super stable, never had a problem with them in 5 years or more
• fast roaming support out of the box

It is a well known brand in Germany but pretty unknown outside that country. Honestly it is the best bang for buck I was able to get.

Honestly, I would spend 10 minutes checking on them