So better put Docker in a VM so it can’t do any harm to the host?

I care about anything. RAM usage, file size, etc. I’m a minimalist when it comes to software. Use as less of all resources as possible. After once writing a router in Python I thought I could do this in Lua, too, but never actually tried. Maybe this would be a nice weekend project?

Even if Nginx is the way to go, I currently experiment with SWS which was suggested here. Technical aspects aside: The software is actively developed and the maintainer provides Docker images on their own (easy for Deploying a container based on that) and a package for my distribution (easy for development testing).

Yes, Freenginx should/would/will be a drop-in replacement, at least int he beginning. We’ll see how this works out over time. Forks purely out of frustration never lived long enough to gain a user base and attract devs. But it’s an “anti corporate bullshit” fork and this alone puts it on my watchlist.

Thanks for educating me on basic computer knowledge! 🤣

Applications need RAM, though. A full-fledged webserver with all the bells and whistles likely needs more ram than a specialized single-binary static file delivery server.

Would be my first one. I’d likely go the Alpine route, too. It’s used as option for the Docker official image.

https://hub.docker.com/_/node/tags?page=1&name=alpine

I do more than that with my setup. This static site would be one of various different things.

Having PHP installed is just unnecessary attack surface.

Yes! Especially running it’s built-in webserver outside your dev environment. They “advertise” doing so in their Docker packages documentation, though. Every project without PHP is a good project. It’s still an option - at least technically.

Are you really struggling for space that 50mb matters?

In a way, yes. I just want to optimize my stuff as much as possible. No unneeded tools, no overhead, a super clean environment, etc. Firing up another Nginx container just doesn’t feel right anymore. (Even if it seems to be possible to manually “hack” file serving into NPM - which makes it a multi-use container serving various different sites and proxying requests.)

The machine I use as docker host also has a pretty low-end CPU and measly 4 gigabytes of RAM. So every resource not wasted is a good resource.

I once built a router in Python, but it was annoying. The much I like Python, the much I dislike coding in it. Just firing up a web server with it is no big deal, though.

I was even thinking of node.js, but this comes with a whole different set of issues. It would allow for future extensions of the project on the server-side, though.

Thanks, this looks actually pretty great. From the description it’s basically BusyBox httpd but with Nginx stability and production-readiness and functionality. It also seems to be actively developed.

My setup already has Nginx Proxy Manager to handle SSL. This is specifically about serving files from within a docker container with as little overhead as possible.

I already have a fully set up docker environment that serves all sorts of things (including some containers that serve special static content using Nginx).

Php is pointless when its a static site with no php

Absolutely, but it has a built-in webserver that can serve static files, too (I constantly use that in my dev environment).

But I guess you’re mostly right about just using Nginx. I already have multiple containers running it, though. Most of them just serving static files. But it’s ca. 50 megabytes compressed size each container just for Nginx alone.

Time to avoid Nginx then …

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/16/freenginx_fork/

I’d always get industrial or enterprise hardware. It’s just better.

Yep, it’s the easiest solution. You could also check if the provided hardware is necessary or if your ISP allows other devices to be connected. Then you could use the Fritzbox directly.

Get a somewhat recent Fritzbox and connect all your hardware to this device and then configure it to use your ISP-provided as uplink in the Fritzbox configuration. Since you already use an AVM repeater it should work well together with a Fritzbox.

Some strict mail servers even blacklist you if the DMARC record is missing.

+1 for Forgejo. Runs butter smooth even on not so high-end machines. You can even mirror your GitHub repos.

Plus: It is not owned by a for-profit organization.

You should switch to Forgejo, though. Gitea is owned and maintained by a for-profit corporation that recently decided that all non-Gitea copyright notices from all files have to be removed (which in the end allows relicensing it to a more restrictive license and even making it nonfree).

The corporation taking over Gitea from the community was also a hostile takeover.

https://forgejo.org/compare

I remember years ago it already was like this in the forums. It actually made me stop using it and running a custom made web based reader for some time.

I wouldn’t use it anymore nowadays.

FreshRSS is the way to go. It even has plugins (and a plugin for YouTube channels as RSS feeds, very convenient).