rclone to dropbox and opendrive for things I care about like photo backups and RAW backups, and an encrypted rclone volume to both for things that need to be backed up, but also kept secure, such as scans of my tax returns, mortgage paperwork, etc. I maintain this script for the actual rclone automation via cron

A big important question is do you want your hobby to be 3d printing or 3d printers? If it’s 3d printing, save up and pay the premium for one of the more appliance-like ones that just works out of the box like the Bambu X1 Carbon. If it’s 3d printers, the skies the limit because you’ll probably end up replacing almost every part over time to upgrade/tweak everything

… And now this is a thing you have just taught me.

I have a unique first name, but a common last name so I have the exact same pattern for my professional email address

Cloudflare DNS Proxy sounds like exactly what you’re looking for, where cloudflare acts as the DNS middleman and responds with their own IPs, while forwarding all traffic for the site(s) to your public IP space

I’m running LinuxServer’s swag container which contains nginx + ACME built into one container, and they have an extensive library of reverse proxy configs that are pre-configured for many docker services that you can just drop in, point your DNS entry at, and be done with.