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Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

My example is home assistant. Deploying on its own hardware means an officially supported management layer, which makes my life easier.

If you're talking about backups and updates for addons and core, that works on VMs as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    For my use case, I’m continually fiddling with my VM config. That’s my playground, not just the services hosted there. I want home assistant to always be available so it can’t be there.

    I suppose I could have a “production “ vm server that I keep stable, separately from my “dev” vm server but that would be more effort. Maybe it’s simply that I don’t have many services I want to treat as production, so the physical hardware is the cheapest and easiest option

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