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how to start with self-hosting? (piefed.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by artiman@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have been wanting to self-host recently I have an old laptop it's a Toshiba satellite m100-221 sitting around it only has 4gb of ram, but I don't know what is a good starting point for an OS for my home lab I discovered yunohost but heard mixed opinions about it when searching I would like lemmy's opinion on a good OS for a beginner wanting to start a home lab I would prefer a simple solution like yunohost but would like it to be configurable it's fine if it needs a bit of tinkering.

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[–] downhomechunk@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your approach works too. Something like CasaOS answers OP's question directly. I was thinking about how I started on this journey. I wanted to play with enterprise level tools at home on repurposed e-waste. So I started with proxmox. But I also came to the table with a couple decades of Linux experience under my belt.

Those scripts make it so easy. You can paste a command, accept defaults, watch some text scroll by and finish with instructions on how to access the tool you just installed.

My homelab is low power as well. I'm currently running zero VMs. Everything is done with LXCs. You can run a pi hole on 512 MB RAM.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I guess we have different ideas of what "enterprise tools" means. At the company I work at, we use Docker and Kubernetes on AWS ECS. Everything is in the cloud so there's no hardware for something like Proxmox to abstract over, just Docker hosts running Docker containers.

That's what I'm familiar with, and Docker containers are really well documented for a lot of services, so it made a ton of sense for me to start there. I think LXCs and VMs encourage the same types of bad behaviors that can complicate maintenance, whereas Docker containers encourage good behaviors that simplify maintenance (specifically one app per container). LXCs and VMs have their place, but I'm convinced Docker/Podman containers are the best default choice.