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What OS to use for VPS Selfhost Server? (Nextcloud...) (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Majestix to c/selfhosted

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another distro doesn't magically fix difficulty for a custom setup. You can checkout other distros and see if maybe you like how they are laid out and how their package managers work, but the general config portion of deploying your apps is going to be the same regardless. Something to consider is how are you getting help for your setup? Is it some content creator you follow who generally does their videos/guides on ubuntu so that is how you figured everything out? Do you have friends or family who use it? If your source of knowledge and help is familiar with ubuntu, it is best to stick with it so you continue to have that resource. I can fumble around most distros, but if you want specific help, you are much better off asking me about specific issues inside an RPM based distro. I imagine others are similar in that they have generally applicable knowledge and a huge amount of specific distro knowledge since that is generally what they use.