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Recommended operating system for self-hosting on a VPS? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Requirements:

based on Debian GNU/Linux
easy to install/uninstall services

Services I'm interested in:

several crypto nodes: BTC, BCH, ETH light node (Helios), XMR, ZEC, etc.
Nostr
SimpleX
xBrowserSync
taskwarrior
Synchthing
Mastodon
vdirsyncer
Element/Matrix

Is using containers with docker/podman on plain Debian the best approach for simplicity?

Does it make sense to have more than one VPS? E.g. one for crypto nodes and another one for the rest?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Debian is my vote, that's what I run on all of my servers, containers, and VMs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Ubuntu Server, Debian, or Rocky Linux will save you a lot of headaches.

Most software is designed with these major distros in mind and using something more obscure will just cause problems later on when you realise that there are no guides written for it by the software vendor. Fixing broken software gets old really fast especially when it causes your stuff to break when you're actually trying to use it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Maybe not the right answer for you since I am not VPS-based but basement-rack-based.

I would choose Debian + docker for whatever available. Just make sure you have enough space for those. And probably even enough CPU.

To me it makes sense to separate them but some would argue otherwise with Docker/podman/container. Remember, Docker however by default is root.

The one I would actually do at home is Docker on a unpriviledged LXC (Proxmox) to make sure that there is no real root processes running

Cheers