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It’s still bad, and the foundation keeps digging itself into a deeper and deeper hole. Dead project.

A fresh Debian container uses 22 MiB of RAM. A fresh debian VM uses 200+ MiB of RAM.
A VM has to translate every single hardware interaction, a container doesn’t.

I don’t want to fuck flies about the definition of ‘huge’ with you, but that’s kind of a huge difference.

Correct.

Side note- people will tell you not to put dockers in an LXC but fuck em. I don’t want to pollute my hypervisor with docker’s bullshit and the performance impact is negligeable.

I recommend you use containers instead of VMs when possible, as VMs have a huge overhead by comparison, but yes. Each service gets its own container, unless 2 services need to share data. My music container, for example, is host to both Gonic, slskd and Samba.

I absolutely respect rawdogging your website with just an IP

They use some of the same kernel functions but they are not the same. They are not comparable. LXCs are used to host a whole separate system that shares kernel with its host, docker is used to bundle external requirements and configs for a piece of software for ease of downstream setup. Docker is portable, LXCs much less so.

LXCs are not comparable to Docker, they do different things.

I can feel a brain aneurysm edging closer when I try to read this so I’ll take your word for it

Apparently. Can you show me?

As you want to do multiple different things, I recommend you install a hypervisor on the laptop, such as Proxmox. It’ll make it easier for you, as a non-programmer, to manage containers and virtual machines.

You will have to deal some high level networking concepts regardless of what level of self-hosting you do, so you should familarize yourself with it. IP addresses, ports, basic firewalling, etc.

I won’t stop you, but I will strongly discourage you from trying to host your own Email. It is a complicated mess of new standards stacked on top of ancient standards and it’s miserable to work with even when it works. If you misconfigure your email server, you’ll get blocked by every major email provider and there’s no way back from that except starting over with a whole new IP and domain.

So what do you want to do? What need are you trying to fill?

Gonic for server, Ultrasonic for client (android)

I would use Navidrome if it supported browsing by folder structure, but they refuse to implement it. My metadata is so scrambled it might as well not exist and it would take months to fix it. I pretend it doesn’t exist, because I don’t use it.