I’ve cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here’s what I’m thinking of, but I’d love to hear what other people are switching to
I’ve cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here’s what I’m thinking of, but I’d love to hear what other people are switching to
A piece of advice from someone who’s 3 years on Linux and still finds Docker a mess:
Try Proxmox. It’s a Debian-based server OS that is all about containers and virtual machines. It uses LXC containers and manages them in the same way you would treat a normal Linux install.
The interface may look a bit scary at first, but I promise this will be the only thing that scares you in the whole experience and it will take just a day or two to get used to it. I suggest finding simple “getting started” guides that will quickly get you up to speed. It’s easy, it just has too many buttons on the screen at once. Oh, and yeah - it’s fully graphical. No CLI unless you specifically want to.
After you figure out the interface, you’ll get an ultimate server solution - or an ultimate playground. Wanna test that thing? Spin up a container/VM. Screwed something up real bad? Destroy the container and get a new one. It takes two clicks, and you’re up and running again. You can easily back up your containers and VMs, so if you screw something up when actually hosting something useful, you can easily revert.
For every program you self-host, you can make its own container - they add very little overhead - and never think of it again. Should anything ever happen to a program - consequences will be limited to that program only.
Oh, and if you DO want to mess with Docker? Make a VM and play with Docker there to your heart’s content. Everything got borked? Throw that VM out the window and spin up a new one. Proxmox makes it very easy.