great stuff
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great stuff
I turn coffe into code to earn $ for gas for my enduro bike and to take long distance trips across Europe and maybe other continents soon :)
To be absolutely honest, I posted a link to the website here as I have never done it previously. Built it years ago, because at the time I found this topic challenging to implement and worth trying. For years the system was online and free to use, serving even 2 million images daily. Free of charge. I didn't know whether I should kill it or spend some more time finally finishing the commercial part. Done the latter over the last couple of months and so here it is, polished a bit with a new rewritten website renderer.
If you were looking for a simmilar projects, or simply interested in the tech behind it, you can have a look at https://github.com/cepa/rabarbar this is the current engine that captures screenshots.
More about it here: https://cepa.io/2018/08/05/building-an-ultimate-remote-linux...
For Win & Lin, NoMachine works reasonably okeyish if your link is fast enough to stream in high quality.
Things are trickier when it comes to production environments due to "data gravity", assuming you have plenty to backup I would stick to vendor's offering. Say for AWS you can use EBS Snapshots for instances and RDS Snapshots for SQL data, other than that S3 to other regions, etc. Depends on your usecase of course. Professionally, RTO and RPO requirements are to be defined before you choose what's the right solution.
Re ZFS, used on BSD and Linux, both work well, never had issues even while migrating between ZFS versions or pools from say Linux to BSD and vice versa.