I’ve been using Proxmox and hosting applications in LXCs but recently I started thinking if I should check for some type of “plug and play” hosting alternatives.
Does anyone have some experience and recommend Yunohost and derivatives? The inspiration came after reading the article from the link.
I have not had reliable experiences with it personally, which is a shame because it’s pretty slick in theory.
Just out of curiousity, what experiences have you been having that aren’t great? I use it which is why I ask.
I use it for my VPS and while it isn’t the smoothest and you need to have some knowledge of CLI, it does make a lot of the drudgery easier. The library of “apps” you can install is decent, too. Again, just finicky but I also hate ready manuals. So, I probably could avoid a lot of the headache I probably give myself.
Yunohost has been great in my experience. Sometimes an app upgrade won’t work, but generally things have been stable (I would recommend installing the automatic security updates app, which is just a Debian package but is available in the app store). When an app is broken it’s marked as such and won’t upgrade until fixed. They have decent rollback support so everything should still function as before. Obviously keeping things simple reduces hasle. For example, if you need a special dns setup then you might run into competing ports with dnsmaq, the default server. The documentation is very helpful and a good guide for self hosting in general.
I would like to try some containerized platforms for extra isolation and orchestration (there seems to be a ton of apps available through docker).
Since you’re on proxmox though it should be fairly simple to spin up a vm to try yunohost. There’s even a [helper script]( Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts ) if you trust it.