Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own

Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by sunshine-o on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @05:45AM (#44234667)

> It doesnt matter if its my home lab or some Saas server, how is it simpler to serve 3 PHP apps with different PHP versions on raw linux than simply using docker for example?

You got me, I have no idea how to manage PHP. Intuitively I would try to solve that problem with Nix first.

But here if you can't run two PHP versions on the same OS I would say the flaw is at the PHP level or how distributions handle it. So personally in my home I would probably avoid it and be grateful containers solve this problem for me at work.

To end on a more positive note, if you like Docker I would recommend you check FreeBSD Jails too because you probably gonna love it.

I used both but Jails have a level of integration in the OS which is next level (if used with ZFS). You really get the best of both world.

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Re:Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your... by tacker2000 on Thursday June 12, 2025 @05:18PM (#44263304)

Yes, running 2 php versions at the same time is quite tricky. One can do it using symlinks, but its a pain.

Its the same like running multiple versions of python (python vs python3, etc… cue the xkcd meme pic).

in the end its all a mess and thats why docker is such a nice thing.

Thanks for the heads up i will check Jails out.

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