Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch?
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Absolutely. I had a similar journey. I started with Yunohost and DietPi. Then plain Raspbian, then plain Debian. Each time nuking and starting from scratch. You learn quickly when you’ve got to retrace the same steps again on a fresh install after messing something up.
Eventually, I tried and stuck with Proxmox (running a Debian VM) and Proxmox Backup Server. With that, you have your regular backups, and if you mess up, you simply revert to a previous backup version.
Others will recommend Ansible - I haven’t got that far yet.
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Replying to myself to add…
This was all while installing this and that dependency and troubleshooting it. Docker was a complication I didn’t want to learn yet.
And then tinytinyrss moved to docker only which forced my hand. I can say installing Docker and Portainer (as someone who prefers a GUI more than command line) has made self hosting so much easier for me, and hugely reduces the need to think about dependencies.
whysofurious@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ah! I started with Yunohost too (and actually still have it on a Pi), definitely opened the port for all this in a nice way!
I agree with you on Docker, it can get complicate but the basics are very very easy. I would probably go with DockGe, I tried both before but didn’t like much portainer :)
But thanks for both comments :)
Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’d recc dockge over portainer personally. Ive had weird nonsense happen with portainer where a stack fails through portainer but not dockge/bare metal