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TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Simple authentication for homelab?

• just love the random downvote ahaha

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Simple authentication for homelab?

I was going to suggest Nginx with phpAuthRequest but your solution seems more inline with what the OP is asking for.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Linux distro for selfhosting server

You know it isn’t true, ever since they started requiring a CLA.

LXD is literally less free than proxmox, looking at those terms, since Canonical isn’t required to open source any custom lxd versions they host.

LXD was forked into Incus (before the CLA took effect) and is now developed under the Linux Containers umbrella as Apache 2.0. From the link:

Incus is a true open source community project, free of any CLA and remains released under the Apache 2.0 license. It’s maintained by the same team of developers that first created LXD.

The only reason why I wrote LXD/Incus is because on Debian 12 you can get it from the repositories as LXD and the roadmap is to eventually replace it with Incus. Both the Debian maintainers and Incus team are working on this transition and have expressed their guarantee that whenever a Debian version comes out with the replacement it will upgrade automatically without incompatibilities or breaking changes - after all the current Debian version is before the CLA took place and is compatible with the Incus code.

At this point, for anyone running Debian 12, you can’t say “go get Incus” as it will just cause confusion and require an extra repository. You’ve to say “go get LXD from the repository” and they’ll eventually get updated to Incus without breaking their setup later.

Either way, still more free than Proxmox.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Linux distro for selfhosting server

Also, it’s backed by a commercial business, so it’s likely to see continued support and dev. With the recent shitshow with VMware, I suspect it’ll be a choice for many businesses - which hopefully translates to a growth in user base (and financial support).

That’s kind of the problem with Proxmox, you never know when they’ll start requiring a license for everyone and what prices will look like. That’s one of the reasons why I’m telling people to look at LXD/Incus. It’s truly free/open and financed by the linux containers initiative that gets resources from multiple big vendors and providers.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Linux distro for selfhosting server

LXD/Incus also does clustering, storage management, has a WebUI etc.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Recommendations for lightweight wiki servers?

For what’s worth Wordpress can work as a wiki with a wiki theme like this one. Modern standards dictate that it’s light… doesn’t consume resources when not in use and it’s easy to install and manage.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade

😂 I’m sure I’m not your boss cause you’re using a Canadian instance and I’m nowhere near Canada. Maybe it’s just that NC underdelivers equally poorly for almost everyone…

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Linux distro for selfhosting server

If you run your stuff in containers then Proxmox (I aways install it on top of Debian) is your hypervisor is your base system

I believe you’re missing my point. Cockpit also works as an hypervisor for most people, a very light and stable one, besides…

If you’re running containers on Proxmox then you’re running LXC containers… why not just use LXD/Incus (also another hypervisor) to manage those containers that is considerably lighter, comes by default in the Debian repository, was designed to manage LXC container (not hacked around like Proxmox was) and isn’t mostly made by a for profit entity that sometimes likes to hold important patches on their subscription-only repositories? Or constantly nag you to buy a subscription?

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in Linux distro for selfhosting server

Dude the guy is running on system with restricted resources and you’re suggesting the most bloated and prone to fail thing ever.

The OP would be way better with Debian + Cockpit (also provider a webUI and virtual machine manager) or Debian + LXD/LXC (containers + VMs, optional webUI). Both of those solutions are way lighter and won’t mess your base system.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to linux in Firefox looks so much better than Chrome

Yes!

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in What advice can you give to a beginner?

You’re missing the point.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in What advice can you give to a beginner?

What are you even claiming? Billing is the same ease VM or container.

Before containers, when hosting was mostly shared stuff (very hard to bill and very expensive when it comes to support) or VMs that people wouldn’t buy because they were expensive.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in What advice can you give to a beginner?

Yes, that’s a valid use case. But the enterprise is also moving to containers because the big tech companies are pushing them into it. What people forget is that containerization also makes splitting hardware and billing customers very easy for cloud providers, something that was a real pain before. Why do you think that google, Microsoft and Amazon never got into the infrastructure business before?

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in I decided that I will update the nextcloud (windows) desktop client once or twice a decade

I don’t think that their paid enterprise customers are doing the beta alpha testers like this. Is it really necessary to push nightlies to end users? It can’t be tested casually for a couple of days then pushed?

I’m sure their enterprise customers are having the same poor experience you’re having.

And FYI nothing is really tested in NC nor nothing is really 100% done, everything is always at 75% and then gets replaced by another half assed implementation.

TCB13 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in What advice can you give to a beginner?

writing my own docker compose files from scratch and learning the syntax, environment va

But you know that most people don’t even do that. They simply download a bunch of pre-made yaml files and use whatever GUI. You would still learn more without docker.