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Selfhosting as a Linux newbie - Ubuntu Server LTS or Debian 13? (piefed.social)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I use Debian as my daily driver, but I'm still a newbie. I would like to selfhost a few apps, initially on a VPS, but I will probably move to a local PC once I diagnose what is broken with my old computer.

The guides at https://selfhosting.sh/ always recommend Ubuntu Server LTS for newbies, but Ubuntu seems to have bad PR and I already run Debian on my home PC. On one hand, I am a newbie and I guess Ubuntu might be easier to set up and maintain. Though, I don't HOW exactly? On the other hand, if I have Debian on my home PC and on my server, they are the same system, so I'd be learning the same system at two places and with two usage scenarios. But it might be easier to make mistakes on Debian..?

What is your opinion/recommendation?

EDIT: thank you everyone! My gut feeling was Debian and your responses were overwhelmingly in favor of Debian, so Debian it is :)

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[–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What's this community's opinion of Yunohost?

I've been struggling with keeping everything in control, the discovered yunohost. It's like containerised apps, but without containers. I love how simple it is and the wide range of apps.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    YNH ease of installation for everything is unrivaled, but upgrades even of popular apps such as Synapse broke on me repeatedly, backups didn't want to restore, and my domain with it kept getting banned by Google Safe Browsing without explanation (fuck Google, but I didn't have much success getting "normal" users to share that view). Other servers with manually written docker-compose files caused much less friction.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Yeah, that's good to know! I didn't have the mental bandwidth to learn all the ngix thing and just wanted to let my family access my immich server, so I'm currently test driving with ynh.

    So far I love it, but haven't yet tried restoring backups or upgrading apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    What’s this community’s opinion of Yunohost?

    I ran it back in the day, and it does come up in topics here. The dev(s) seem to have greatly improved it since my experience. I haven't done a side by side comparison, but I think Yunohost has the largest app store I've seen than that of competitors in it's class. I think it's pretty solid architecture, and for someone starting out, or even if you just don't want to get that involved in 100% DIY, then it's a great option.

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