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What would be the best way to host a SimpleX smp and xftp server? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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So I have a couple options at my disposal. I’m fairly beginner with self hosting, with linux, and command line.

So my options are

  1. Run server via ubuntu vm on windows 11 machine that I already run my plex server and some game servers through.

  2. Use random other computer, install ubuntu or ubuntu server on and host that way. Not sure if ubuntu or ubuntu server would be better for me. I’m not sure what the hardware is yet, but I know it’s pretty old and likely lower end. I have very little cli experience and I want to learn to be better command line so maybe ubuntu server would be a good learning experience.

  3. Host it via docker on linux machine.

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[–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

No. You can install docker directly in Windows. OP is running a Linux VM and then docker inside of that.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Docker desktop for Windows runs under WSL or Hyper-V, both being VMs themselves.

    Arguably running a Linux VM themselves will only offer them more customisation options (although may be heavier than WSL)

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