Comment on Yunohost frustrations of the beginner self hoster
RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year agoMy opinion as well.
I entered the self hosting with literally zero experience and went into docker with portainer as management frontend.
Still suits me well and I’m running 3 servers with well over 30 services now
schmorpel@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I have been looking into docker and I’m afraid it looks rather complex, how much time did you have to invest to have something up and running?
RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
It’s easier than it looks.
In 99% of cases you can basically just copy paste the docker compose or the docker run commands and just change the paths for your system.
schmurian@lsmu.schmurian.xyz 1 year ago
Well, in terms of learning, I‘m still learning, and I‘m already a few years in. In terms of time in front of a screen, it depends on how much automation you throw at your services and builds. It will always come back to questions like: what if an update changes the way the software works? What if something breaks, like a config or a dependency overwrites another. How good do you know the parts of the services for troubleshooting? Do you have a backup? How fast can you rebuild your systems? If you have answers to these questions, you can feel confident in hosting services for yourself and others. If not, you can try but will run into these moments at some point, where you need to fix something fast. And that‘s the moment where you spent your time in front of a screen.