FWIW I had to undo B) just yesterday. I thought the same thing about resolving records in order but it does not. I didn’t dive too far in, but my proxy server would occasionally query my router instead of the pihole for DNS requests. Maybe I just did it wrong :)
For the record I was assigning these DNS server IPs via docker compose. So perhaps that makes a difference.
Epic took away player to player trading in rocket league just to support a new game mode in Fortnite (rocket racing). Now the only way to get items is through the item shop using real money. Have a dozen copies of the same item because you’ve been playing since 2015 and want to gift it to somebody? Too bad, not possible. Rocket League is dying, but hey at least rocket racing in Fortnite has familiar assets!
We would back up double-digit GB MySQL databases by piping mysqldump into gzip as well. Like you I’m sure there’s a size limit where that doesn’t work. I never found out if it was CPU or memory constrained though.
Where I’m at, the DBAs shifted from pipes to temporary files. They said at the double-digit TB size, it would occasionally fail otherwise. This was with Postgres / barman / pigz, FWIW.
Never saw it myself, so I have no idea what the cause was.
I've used mysqldump|gzip when migrating a ~1TB database to an incompatible version of MySQL/MariaDB. It's slow but very reliable. I think the single-threaded pipe is the bottleneck. The process never took up more than one full CPU core.
There’s something to be said about drastically reducing your threat surface too. Locking down 1 server is easier than locking down a fleet. You can still have security in depth inside your server.
Probably nothing with the cutoffs they're using here, but neonatal opioid abstinence syndrome is absolutely a thing. And not all necessarily by "drug addict" mothers, but lots of legitimate long-term opiate use. But one would hope they would be up-front about the latter at least.
Docker has been a godsend for home labs. People don't need to know where on the filesystem their configs have been scattered (distro dependent). They just need to know how to docker pull and configure their container.
For the record I was assigning these DNS server IPs via docker compose. So perhaps that makes a difference.