this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
18 points (87.5% liked)

Selfhosted

56975 readers
957 users here now

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Rules:

  1. Be civil: we're here to support and learn from one another. Insults won't be tolerated. Flame wars are frowned upon.

  2. No spam posting.

  3. Posts have to be centered around self-hosting. There are other communities for discussing hardware or home computing. If it's not obvious why your post topic revolves around selfhosting, please include details to make it clear.

  4. Don't duplicate the full text of your blog or github here. Just post the link for folks to click.

  5. Submission headline should match the article title (don’t cherry-pick information from the title to fit your agenda).

  6. No trolling.

  7. No low-effort posts. This is subjective and will largely be determined by the community member reports.

Resources:

Any issues on the community? Report it using the report flag.

Questions? DM the mods!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Loki@lemmy.world
CannaVet@lemmy.world
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world
devve@lemmy.world
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.hybridsarcasm.xyz
18
Three Docker related questions (piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by somegregariousdude@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
24 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Hey all, I know the purists might sneer at me for this, but I just spun up a server via Hetzner so I could run Docker in the cloud. Since my ISP uses CGNAT, my only options for hosting services at home are either via Tailscale Funnel or CloudFlare Tunnel. If you remember my previous post about Yattee, that's not available on the public internet, but was meant for my private use only. The idea behind this new project is hosting things I intend for public access. I'm debating if I'm going to use a domain I already own that ends in the .us TLD or if I should wait until I get paid in a couple of days and buy a new one from Pork Bun that doesn't have the .us TLD and all the potential baggage that carries. Three questions come to mind:

  • How practical is running Portainer on my Docker instance? (I've got it installed, but I'm new to Portainer and Docker for the most part.)
  • Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what's worth running on a Docker instance with 8 VCPUs, 16GB of RAM and around 300GB of storage?
  • Is there a Matrix room for those wishing to discuss self-hosting, especially via Docker?
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] themachine@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I use portainer extensively and am quite fond of it. I normally live on the CLI so picking a GUI tool over cli management is unusual for me but I've found portainer largely just makes typical management easier and doesn't get in my way at all.

For your other questions I have no answers. I self host everything so to me "what is worth running" is not a question that makes sense. I run what I need and my needs therefore define what I run.

I stick to IRC over matrix.

[–] sicjoke@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

+1 for Portainer. It’s just such a great tool to use.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Another +1 for Portainer.