Hello everyone, My home server (intel nuc6) died on me recently, I set it to be used as my home server using OpensSUSE Leap with the following services:

  • NFS server
  • Sftp over ssh for remote file transfers and I was looking for a faster alternative for local transfers (tftp maybe)
  • Qbittorrent
  • Aria2
  • Emby
  • I was experiencing with nextcloud then pfsense after.
  • Definitely an office suite and a few nextcloud addons.

I have no alternative machine ATM to use it as a replacement but I plan to re-install everything on a VM (Virtualbox or Qemu/libvirt) on my Desktop, I have no experience with containers, but I think installing each service in a countainer would make it easier to move everything later to my new home server.

Would using debian or opensuse and use docker? Maybe even proxmox? or should I just stick with installing everything directly on my distro with no containers? I would love to know your opinion about the best approach.

  • adonis
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    29 months ago
    • install proxmox & create VM with favourite distro
    • setup docker & portainer (for gui management)
    • have fun
    • @G4ME@feddit.de
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      19 months ago

      portainer is not free to use correct? Alternatively one could use unraid (provides nfs, vms and docker management)

      • adonis
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        19 months ago

        there’s a community edition (portainer-ce) which is totally free to use