Hoarder does not have that option, sadly. It would be nice if it did, but the link database is stored on the server you host it on, and the background service that screenshots the site and gets tags for it needs to be online. Without being exposed to the internet, Hoarder won’t do you any good.

Hey, if you wanna put your home server out there so the first person who gets pissy at you can DDoS you off the net until your ISP decides to cancel your service, that’s a perfectly acceptable decision to make for yourself.

PSA: If you use Cloudflare to proxy, you can get a free decade long certificate and not worry about it for awhile.

I’ve never had iOS shut my VPN off, and I use a kill switch so I would immediately know.

Ah, you should perhaps look into using Cloudflare or a similar service. Not for the certificate, but because if somebody took a dislike to your instance, they could easily DDoS you off the internet. The decade long certificate is just icing on the top.

Are you using cloudflare to proxy the server? If so, just download a 10-year certificate and don’t worry about renewing short term ones.

Patience, most of all.

Also, backups and notes. The solution you use to host might take care of the backups. For example, I use Unraid, so if any drive fails the system can simulate the data on that drive until I can get it shut down to replace it, and then recreate the data on the new drive.

As for notes, those are important so that you can always know what you’ve done, and what you need to do. That way, if you ever have to do it again, say if you’re setting up another server or replacing one that failed, you know the steps you took to get it set up exactly how you like. It’s also handy because you’ll be doing things like assigning services to ports, and you’ll probably at some point want to know what services are on what ports without going through and checking each one. Things like that are handy things to stick in notes.

Other than that, you don’t need a lot of skills to set something like a home server up. You just need to read the documentation for each service you’re planning to use, and get familiar with how it works.