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Re:Why Self-Host? by tracker1 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:22PM (#45530570)
For my home or personal server stuff... I'm pretty much using ProxMox as a VM host, with Ubuntu Server as the main server and mostly Docker configured with Caddy installed on the host. Most apps are stacked in /apps/appname/docker-compose.yaml with data directories mounted underneath. This just tends to simplify most of my backup/restore/migrate etc.

I just don't have the need to do a lot of work on the barebones server beyond basic ufw and getting Caddy and Docker running... Caddy will reverse-proxy all the apps running in containers. It really simplifies my setup.

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Re:Why Self-Host? by neoromantique on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:27PM (#45530647)
That's essentially what I do (with a little extra step of having a dedicated server in Hetzner peered with my homelab with wireguard to use as internet facing proxy + offsite backup server).

Ah, also docker is managed with komo.do, but otherwise it is simple GUI over docker-compose

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Re:Why Self-Host? by tracker1 on Thursday October 09, 2025 @01:43PM (#45530782)
That's cool... I really should take a next step to bridge my home setup with my OVH server. It's a mixed bag, mostly in that the upgrade to "business" class from home is more than what I pay a month to rent the full server and IP block on OVH... But I've got a relatively big NAS at home I wouldn't mind leveraging more/better.

Aside: I really want to like NextCloud, but as much as I like aspects of it, I don't like plenty as well.

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Re:Why Self-Host? by neoromantique on Friday October 10, 2025 @12:24PM (#45540695)
I don't mean proper L2 bridging, I do it with wireguard, as I am behind CGNAT at home.

It's mostly to unify VLANs and simplify management (i.e everything is routed through my main router, rather than loose tunnels on servers/vm's)

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