Hey all,

Just wondering what the consensus is on hosting directly on a computer versus virtualization? Right now I’m hosting my Lemmy instance on a Hetzner VPS, but I would like to eventually migrate to my Linux box at home. It currently runs as a media PC (Ubuntu) in the living room, but I always intended to self-host other software on the side since it should be more than capable of doing both (Ryzen 5600G, 16gb DDR4).

I’m just torn though - should I host a virtual machine on it for Lemmy, or run it directly on Ubuntu as-is? I plan to do some further self-hosting projects as well later down the line.

  • dustojnikhummerEnglish
    23·
    2 years ago

    I have my Docker stuff in a VM. Much more reliable than bare metal OS

    • LufyCZEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      What exactly is reliable about it?

      • dustojnikhummerEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Backups. Backing up a VM on hypervisor level (and restoring somewhere else) is easier and more reliable than lets say Veeam bare metal backup.

        Also, snapshots