Where should i buy my domain and are there any things i should be careful about?

Just becareful about renewals. Sometimes a domain will be cheap year one, but crazy expensive year 2+. I personally use Porkbun

does the end of my domain (idk the specific name but .XYZ) matter at all?

Sometimes it can matter. If you host email, some TLDs are classed as higher risk and could be wholesale blocked or classed as higher risk.

Am i willing to self host too much stuff?

That's a question of how much time do you mind spending configuring, maintaining, and upgrading. I run way too many services. Some of them require more effort than others. Forgejo requires more effort to get working than Immich for me trying to get Forgejo Actions working well.

Recommend any good pods?

I saw it, I was excited, then the disappointment hit me.

One day a human will make something like this and I can use it.

Where should i buy my domain and are there any things i should be careful about?

not sure. i host at home and vpn in with tailscale

does the end of my domain (idk the specific name but .XYZ) matter at all?

shouldnt matter i believe?

I get that i should use a used PC (i have none lying around), but how old?

depends on what youre doing, but for simple file sharing and some small automations you could probably get away with a 10ish year old computer. i used a 2012 hp pc for many years. only replaced it abt a year ago.

Am i willing to self host too much stuff?

if your machine can handle it, who cares?

Can i use Gentoo, Devuan, or other non-systemd distros as an OS?

you can use anything you like. host everything on plan9 for all i care.

This seems really cool! I’m tempted to use it to share my music production library with my friend/co-producer and also host samples through there!

AGENTS.md is in the repo.

Why do you think so?

Vibe-coded?

Easiest way i have done this is through yunohost.

Ive done it bare metal before and it sucks after a year doing updates.

link does not seem to work. No resolution.

Funkwhale is pretty neat and has been around for a while. https://www.funkwhale.audio/

Interesting to make this move now when theres a ton of better alternatives. More than likely they saw a big decline in CE adoption and have decided to just do the "enshitify vendor lock in" playbook for their corporate customers.

That's exactly the workflow I had in mind, thanks for confirming :)

Depends on config. I only started after this announcement but I like to use persistent volumes, so it was a case of moving my stack over to a project. Stopping it and deleting in portainer and starting it in arcane. done 4 servers in 2 days. YMMV but was less impactful than I thought and loads of stuff that was locked behind a paywall is suddenly fine.

Also check out Dockhand for a Docker UI.

I moved to Dockhand, which is more Compose-centric, easier to use (a log viewer that works, imagine that!) and looks nicer (may feel too information-dense by comparison). It's evolving very quickly, obviously with help of AI, but with none of the weird regressions and haphazard product pacing, which makes me think a firm human hand is at the helm.

Would ypu mind elaborating on your migration process ?

I'm currently migrating to arcane at the moment, but got sidetracked by a 2 second mention of authentik in a video talking about the pros of arcane. on the plus I now have sso at home

I like nexus

I like Komodo, it's reliable and it has a lot of nice features. I previously used DockGE

I've also heard people use Arcane but I didn't give that a fair try before settling on Komodo so I can't judge

My recent search for an alternative suggests arcane is the new hotness. Am planning to migrate but haven’t yet done so, so I don’t have a first hand account for you.

What services do you prefer? Ive no dog in the fight because I just use the CLI but im curious what's out there

The alternatives have been better for a while now

Check out Nginx Proxy Manager. it automates the process of setting up a reverse proxy server for you. You will need your own domain name to make it work.

If you don't want to use Portainer, there is alternative called DockGe. I tried it, and eventually came back to Portainer. But I know a lot of people really like it. It should work with Podman too.

Didn't know about Awesome Self Hosted, I've just bookmarked it, will definitely be checking that out. There are other features I need from NextCloud, the calendar was just one example.

Not a fan of docker because it is not completely open source, so I've been using podman instead. Portainer looks cool and is something I would like to use, however I'm worried that it'll end up going the way of enshitification since it's run by a for profit company for the sole purpose of profit. Also not a fan of their license.