I mean, fall, for Americans, is a period within autumn in which the leaves of most trees fall… Not the whole season. Here’s some sauce from the world’s worst English dictionary.

For inspiration, here’s my list of services:

Here is the overhead for everything. CPU is an i3 6100 and RAM is 2133MHz:

Quick note about my setup, some things threw a permissions hissy fit when in separate containers, so Media actually has Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and two instances of qBittorrent. A few of my containers do have supplementary programs.

An LXC is isolated, system-wise, by default (unprivileged) and has very low resource requirements.

• Storage also expands when needed, i.e. you can say it can have 40GB but it’ll only use as much as needed and nothing bad will happen if your allocated storage is higher than your actual storage… Until the total usage approaches 100%. So there’s some flexibility. With a VM the storage is definite.
• Usually a Debian 12 container image takes up ~1.5GB.
• LXCs are perfectly good for most use cases. VMs, for me, only come in when necessary, when the desired program has more needs like root privileges, in which case a VM is much safer than giving an LXC access to the Proxmox system. Or when the program is a full OS, in the case of Home Assistant.

Separating each service ensures that if something breaks, there are zero collateral casualties.

Docker also has its own LAN IP address, in my experience it’s 172.17.0.1 instead of 127.0.0.1. And yes, between containers the container name is used, e.g. plexserver:2736, and it’s good practice to manually give them names.

the Fairphone (Gen 6) is the only handset that really goes the distance.

And the 5, and the 4, and the 3… you can buy the other ones, writer.