Apologies for the poor grammar, English IS my first language and so I’m rather flagrant with runons.
I’m really not half as tech literate as half the people on the fediverse, but my noia about the state of online cloud hosting and lack of control over my data has led me far out of my depth. I’m wanting to set up a LibreCMC router and connect it to some type of home server (made of local office E-Waste) for media storage, email hosting, and fucking Minecraft servers or something. I promise I’ve tried my best in searching for the problem but often find myself floundering in 3-letter acronyms, and relations between systems I don’t understand (like dockers, or the Jellyfin vs Plex argument.) I don’t need an explanation but maybe some orientation on where I am to look for resources on these topics that assume I’m the 6 celled neurobase I am.
Thank you for your help, or your chastising.
I highly recommend you use Proxmox as the base OS. Proxmox makes it easy to spin up virtual machines, and easy to back up and revert to backups. So you’re free to play around and try stupid stuff. If you break something in your VM, just restore a backup.
In addition to virtual machines, Proxmox also does “LXC containers” , which are system level containers. They are basically a very light weight virtual machine, with some caveats like running the same kernel as the host.
Most self-hosting software is released as a docker-image. Docker is application level containers, meaning only the bare minimum to run the application is included. You don’t enter a docker container to update packages, instead you pull down a new version of the image from the author.
There are 3 ways to run docker on Proxmox:
The “overhead” of running docker inside a VM on the host is so negligible, you don’t need to worry about it.