Two questions upfront.

1. Does your Netgear router support being a VPN client?
2. Does it have a guest mode?

If the answer to both of those is yes then you could consider using the guest mode as your VPN network.

If not then your best option is probably 2. You could get a router which supports OpenWRT or use a different enterprise style router like pfsense.

I the same thing you’re asking about in pfsense where I routed one VLAN over a VPN while leaving my main LAN completely normal.

https://blog.gravitywall.net/2022/03/02/routing-specific-vlans-over-a-privacy-vpn-with-pfsense-2-6-0/

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RAM doesn’t need to be divisible by 4. You can mix and match sizes of RAM it’s just not advisable.

It’s mostly for internal stuff with a NAS. Uploading and downloading files off a NAS or streaming 4K content can all benefit from 10G

Because SDN setups are significantly better than Mesh

I got 2x1000v/800w USPs for $145.

Some light strips to put in TM server rack for $9

A 24port patch panel and keystone Jacks for $35

A keyboard drawer for $50

And a rack mounted Fan for $100.

My 2024 New Years resolution is to make my server rack not look like a piece of shit.

There’s more than a decade worth of banking, spending, and investment information in there.

That’s the real reason I would self host something like a budget app. I don’t want a company like Mint to have (and sell) my purchasing and financial history.

It’s bots trying to brute force your SSH login. It happens all the time.

Just change SSH to key based only (disable password login) and move on.

“self hosted budget management app”. Can’t you just install this type of app to your phone or pc? What’s the purpose here, will you host it and access it from a browser? Or do you only want to backup its data to your server?

I don’t want some third party having access to all of my transaction history and knowing what I spend and where.

I hope I don’t sound stupid please enlighten me.

Your question isn’t stupid. There is an important decision you need to make on “is the juice worth the squeeze.” While you can selfhost a lot of stuff sometimes there’s better reasons not to. Email is primary example that gets brought up a lot. Sure you CAN self host it, but for a lot of people on this sub it’s not worth the effort required to do so.

Each person has to make that decision for each of the things they choose to self host. Budget apps are no different.

disabling password login and use pubkey authentication will be safe enough?

Just make sure you actually disable password login. Simply enabling key doesn’t disable password. So as long as the password is disabled then you’re fine.