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I will definitely try again at some point in the next year, so I will keep that in mind! I appreciate the kind words. A lot of what you said is over my head at the moment though, so I've got my work cut out for me. ๐
Docker Compose is really the easiest way to self-host.
Copy a file, usually provided by the developers of the app you want to run, change some values if instructed by the
# comments, rundocker compose upand it "just works".And I say that as someone who has done everything from distro-provided packages to compiling from source, Nix, podman systemd, and currently running a full-blown multi-node distributed storage Kubernetes cluster at home.
Just use docker compose.
Docker-compose is the way. Got Navidrome set up last night, and just finished setting up Jellyfin. Appreciate the input!
Glad you found your ideal selfhosting setup!
Enjoy!