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Sorry, maybe a weird question. But I am gonna acquire a nice server soon and am interested on how to manage that. I want to run stuff like a webserver, matrix server and just a lot of cool stuff. But how do I approach that on a software level? Any tips would be nice. Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I use unRAID + the docker compose plugin. The main advantage is that hardware updates are super easy:

  1. Turn off

  2. Replace motherboard and CPU with a completely different one

  3. Turn on

(4. If hardware is passed through to a VM, reconfigure the XML)

Done, it just works, so I can just scavenge free hardware from work. Only this year I did AMD>Intel>AMD with very different CPUs and it didn't bat an eye