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selfhosting on windows server? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago by aesir to c/selfhosted

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Hi, I can spin up for free a Windows VPS (win server 2016 with graphical interface or win server 2022 core version since it has only 1GB of RAM). The problem is that outside of Linux I have absolutely no experience. I would like to try hosting something also on Windows server just to take away some load from other machines or even just to learn something new.

Therefore I have the following questions:

*Is there any starting resource for windows selfhosting you can recommend? I would love if a list like the awesome selfhosted existed for services that can run on windows.

*Is there anything non-enterprise for which a windows server would provide any advantage over Linux?

*Does anyone self hosts on windows server? Can I ask what you use it for?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I used to self host all of my services at the time (Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Jackett) on Windows before I built a dedicated server, and it worked surprisingly well. I basically just enabled WSL2, installed Ubuntu and pointed Docker Desktop at that, from there on it was pretty much just logging into Ubuntu and going about my business as usual. Don't recall any major issues during the 2+ years I had that setup going.

There are minor oddities and incompatibilities when it comes to networking (off the top of my head, host networking doesn't work iirc and the Docker host IP alias is different). The main thing is I'm not sure how easy that would be to setup in a remote SSH only environment or if it's even doable or allowed but it was quite simple to set up locally.