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What OS to use for VPS Selfhost Server? (Nextcloud...) (lemmy.world)

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

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Hey there. I have for the past year tried myself with some selfhosting of mainly a personal Nextcloud Instance. I also installed and used an RTSP-Server for Livestreaming, Traccar for Live-GPS sharing and Recording and a Paperless-NGX Server and Jellyfin. I use many of those Services daily.

Currently for my OS I am using Ubuntu 22.04, but I am not happy with my Setup. It's difficult to setup, because I am not the most skilled in everything Linux and Serveradminstuff.

My Nextcloud Instance is just running without Docker, some Services run with Docker and some with Docker Compose. I try to use reverse Proxies but can't get some things to work. (I use Nginx) (I ofcourse have a Domain as well with subdomains for everything)

So, my Question is: Is there a more Userfriendly and/or streamlined Approach or Server/OS that I could give a try and use? My Question goes not really in the Direction of which OS specifically, but maybe if there are Solutions to make it easier? I've read about Ansible-NAS, Unraid, Proxmox, Portainer, etc...

It is all currently running and mostly secure, but I just wish to make upkeep and stuff like that easier for myself.

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[–] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 1 year ago

If you can do everything with Docker/Docker Compose, you free yourself from worrying about the underlying system. Docker becomes what you need to learn, and the worst part of a Linux setup is just getting Docker installed and updated.

Ubuntu would be my Linux pick, though. Long support, paid support if necessary, and a very large community.