In my experience, the only OS that (usually) suspends when told to do so is mac. Linux and Windows both struggle with it depending on your hardware.

There have been instances where I have seen such behaviour , but it has almost always boiled down to ISP hardware in a very specific location. Multiple different devices in different locations? Most likely user error

It is cheap as long as you don’t need to restore your data. Downloading data from S3 costs a lot. OP asked about 56TB of storage, for which data retrieval would cost about 4.7k

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/ under data transfer

The /e/OS version of Fairphone 6 is still almost 50% cheaper, while providing slightly higher IP rating, 3 years longer warranty, schematics for board repair and a guarantee of 8 years of software updates. In addition to that, the phone is built ethically.

Murena phone has a faster GPU (2x) and up to 36% faster CPU, but only 2 years of warranty and 5 years of spare parts. Fairphone still has spare displays on sale for Fairphone 2, which came out a decade ago.

Hiroh phone also has a “sustainability” field in the specs, which is nice and empty

Fairphone doesn’t have any bloatware either (besides base google apps), yet their phones aren’t priced 1k+

It is doable, but it is a pain if the docker requires any special config like permanent storage. Getting nginx up and running for mTLS was especially annoying

Truenas Scale works well as long as you don’t want any dockers on it. Once you want to run docker images it is easier to install a VM on Truenas and run the docker from there than it is to try to set up custom “Apps”