All my hardware needs to move. And I cannot take it with me, but I want to keep my core stuff available. Looking at what people think are some good options.
I expect it will be to a mates house with taolscale or similar in front.
Yes. i think that is like a "bastion" server, or something like that. good idea. I expect that i can get more-or-less free VPS, and just run the NPM and tailscale or something there.
I would not run any of the *arrs on a network that is not yours
Good thought, i dont think i would need it whilst i am away anyway.
Depending. But yes. A lot of the time they go the long way around, and head out to some server and back to your local network.
If the internet is down, or the vendor shits off the server, the device stops working.
Home assistant is attempting to localise everything, and get different vendors devices to work together.
Note, for your hass install, it can be installed on any server. Though I am using the green device