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by peanut-walrus12 hours ago |
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upvoteby mx7zysuj4xew7 hours ago|
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Everything you listed is the antithesis to managing and maintaining high availability systems
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upvoteby peanut-walrus4 hours ago|
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It's your personal toy server, you are optimizing for something entirely different than high availability.
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upvoteby andix4 hours ago|
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I have around 20 "personal toy servers". I really don't like to fix them all the time.

Most of them are some small VMs or some Rasperry Pis controlling something. I want minimal changes on those systems, but still being able to update them.

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upvoteby exyi10 hours ago|
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Then you also have to auto-update the containers, if it's a public facing service. Either you'll have to build containers yourself or hope the developer pushes a new update whenever the base image has relevant security fixes.
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upvoteby peanut-walrus4 hours ago|
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Yup, podman quadlets autoupdate quite nicely. Setting up a local registry mirror with ~3d delay before applying updates is on my todo list.

My own service images already have a script that runs daily that pulls latest git updates and builds fresh images.

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upvoteby htx80nerd4 hours ago|
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>!!!I see no reason not to go with a rolling release distro!!! for personal servers. Run all the services in containers and !!!have the base OS auto-update itself as often as it needs.!!!

you do not belong in IT

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upvoteby unethical_ban3 hours ago|
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Personal servers.

There are things that need 9^5 and there are things that don't. If someone backs up their application configs and data properly, then the only thing that really matters is a proper backup strategy.

All my critical files are backed up periodically (manually) via rclone to S3 glacier, and all my services are documented in dokuwiki. If you use ansible or want to store configs and installation scripts, a private git repo would do well.

After that, I don't see a problem running rolling or short-support OS like Fedora Server for application hosting.

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upvoteby andix3 hours ago|
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Great. I like my personal servers to just keep working. Without having to restore backups. And without having to spend one Saturday every month to update and fix all the servers.
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