I am going to do a writeup on the #Freedombox #Debian blend (I've inaccurately calling it a 'spin', heh) for my blog. It's been an interesting year+ with hosting and self-hosting. #Proxmox continues to dominate my personal and work installations.
I also want to do a write up about Netbird, but think I need to mess a little more with HeadScale and Nebula before that. VM backups (like X TB worth) to a server behind a restrictive FW seems to be the hardest part for these mesh/vpns to get and stay working reliably. But overall I already can't imagine my life without Netbird, it's so nice to have a GUI for private network allow/deny rules and just letting go of having to route everything through firewall port forwarding.