Docker Compose is basically designed to bring up a tech stack on one machine. So rather than having an Apache machine, a MySQL machine, and a Redis machine, you set up a Docker Compose file with all of those services. It’s easier than using individual Docker commands too. It sets up a network so they can all talk to each other, then opens the ports you tell it to. It’s isolated from other Docker Compose networks, so things won’t interfere with each other. So you can basically isolate a bunch of services with their own tech stacks all on the same machine. I’ve got my Jellyfin server running on the same machine as my Mastodon instance, thanks to Docker Compose.

As long as Docker is configured to run automatically at boot (which it usually is when you install it), it will bring containers back up that are set to be restarted. You can use the “always” or the “unless-stopped” values for the restart option, depending on your needs, then Docker will bring that container back up after a reboot.

Docker Compose is also useful in this context, because you can define dependencies for services. So I can say that the Mastodon container depends on the Postgres container, and Docker Compose will always start the Postgres container first.

One benefit that might be overlooked here is that as long as you don’t use any Docker Volumes (and instead bind mount a local directory) and you’re using Docker Compose, you can migrate a whole service, tech stack and everything, to a new machine super easily. I just did this with a Minecraft server that outgrew the machine it was on. Just tar the whole directory, copy it to the new host, untar, and docker compose up -d.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think Proxmox uses Docker. I’m pretty sure its containers are LXC containers.

I’m working on one, but it’s not ready. :(

Eventually it will be available as part of my WebDAV server, Nephele. Sorry I can’t help yet.

Check your router and see if you’ve forwarded the port to your server.

Lol, I love that a software project like this exists. Open source is great.

Unfortunately, it’s for a private repository, so I can’t use GitHub.

This looks pretty promising. It has everything I need. Thanks!

How many VMs can you reasonably run with only 8GB of RAM?

Check out QuickDAV. I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for. If you’re going across the internet, you’d have to forward a port from your router. Otherwise, if you’re on the same network, it’s really simple.

Ah. I don’t know why anyone would be put off by that.

I’m not familiar with the term AL2. What is that?

It’s stable enough to use in production, but the internal APIs might change, so I wouldn’t recommend writing your own adapters/plugins for it.

It’s still labeled as “alpha” because not all of the features are don’t yet. Once CardDAV support is added, it will get bumped to beta.

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There’s a new version of Nephele WebDAV server (also on Docker Hub) that supports using an S3 compatible server as storage and encrypting filenames and file contents.

This essentially means you can build your own cloud storage server leveraging something like Backblaze B2 for $6/TB/month, and that data is kept private through encryption. That’s cheaper than Google Drive, and no one can snoop on your files.

I’m assuming I would notice, because none of my services on the machine would work anymore.

All of my machines back up to my home server’s RAID over WebDAV with Nephele.

Then every few days I’ll manually sync them to a server at my parents’ house with a single huge HDD using rsync. I do this manually so that if anything happens to my home server (like ransomware) it doesn’t mirror destroyed data.

Since the Nephele share is just WebDAV, I can mount it locally and move things into it that I don’t want local anymore.

I created Nephele, and I just finished writing an encryption plugin. I wrote it because I’m also going to write an S3 adapter. That way, you can store things in S3, but they’ll be encrypted, so Amazon can’t see them.

Your best option would probably be to buy a refurbished office PC that has at least 16 gb of RAM.

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GCX4JKJ

That way you get a bunch of memory in a decent system for cheap, and you’re only using up one port on your switch.

I’m personally running Ubuntu Server (but I’d recommend Debian), and manage my RAID with mdadm. That way I’ve got just a generic server, and I can install whatever I want.

Then for my share, I use my own WebDAV server, Nephele:

https://hub.docker.com/r/sciactive/nephele

It’s nice because it’s got a browser client that works in basically any browser. I’ve got that running behind Nginx Proxy Manager reverse proxy, so I can have a bunch of services on subdomains running on the same server.

Samba is faster than WebDAV when you’re dealing with a lot of files, but it doesn’t work with a browser, which is more important for me.

I have Nginx Proxy Manager set up to let me access services running HTTP on other ports on the machine with a local network only access list just so my traffic even in my own network will use TLS. The likelihood that anyone is sniffing traffic on my own network is extremely small, but I’m paranoid. (Can’t let anyone see that I’m running Ubuntu Server. How embarrassing.)

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