Every single time I talk to my friends, whom also want an *arr/Plex/VPN/Home Assistant setup like I’ve got, I can see the fear in their eyes when I mention Debian, Docker, and the terminal. It could be a case of “git gud”, but I want to help them out with a setup like this, but with as low friction as possible. Ideally something completely GUI based, and very low maintenance.
I know of unRAID, and Portainer, but does anyone have any experience in setting up something like this for people whose knowledge of self hosting and networking aren’t as good as yours?
It’s technically possible with yunohost or unraid but i pretend that doesn’t exist: the apps will eventually break after an automatic update. The fix is usually easy with basic terminal skills but if everything is under a GUI…
Also, if the admin has no idea how it works, it means it has no idea where the data is saved, that means it has no idea how to make backups. No backups = all data is on time bomb