Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
For those of you well-versed in running droplets / virtual servers: Is it advisable to host several different services on a single Digital Ocean droplet? For example a ClassicPress or Ghost installation, a PeerTube instance, and maybe a Mastodon instance.
I assume it's possible given enough resources and tools like nginx, but is it RECOMMENDED?
This would be a Linux for Everyone adventure. I'm trying to save on money spent, but I also don't want it to be a massive headache to manage.
Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
@darth *Nods* Indeed, "droplet" is just a word for virtual server or VPS.
I suspect I should just bite the bullet and run everything on unique droplets to reduce the complexity and hassle.
Linux Renaissance
@killyourfm I assume droplet is digital ocean slang for virtual machine. I am running Caddy reverse proxy on OPNsense firewall (nginx is too complex for me) which holds IPv4 public IP and does HTTPS and forwards requests to internal HTTP services. However mine are all on different VM, for "easier" maintenance. I could have just used Docker images on a single VM like you are proposing and it would be fine. You can also try LXC containers that can have different IP address.
Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
@coolcoder360 that is a FANTASTIC point. Thank you for the knowledge!
Coolcoder360
@killyourfm I don't host things in digital ocean or other VPS providers, but imo from doing some self-hosting in a homelab, it's better to containerize everything with either LXC or even honestly separate docker containers.
This way each thing you're running has exactly the versions of the dependencies it needs to work well.
Last thing you want is to update one thing and have it break something else.
Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
@darth What's your "all-in" cost for all of that?
Linux Renaissance
@killyourfm I just saw what Veronica wrote. That's good advice to learn containers if you want everything in one box. But as I said my choice was to separate matrix from peertube from webserver from mail server...
Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
@mike 💡
You're jogging my memory! I BRIEFLY played around with Cloudron several years ago for PeerTube. I don't remember them having so many supported apps back then. Ok, thank you for your reply man! I'm going to tinker with this.
Mike Rockwell
@killyourfm I’ve been doing this for a handful of years and haven’t regretted it.
Right now I’m using Cloudron on a Linode. Cloudron is a management dashboard with an app store. It handles updates, SSL cert, DNS, backups, and more. It makes it much easier.
I’ve gone through a migration from one server to another and the backup made the whole process a cinch. I basically told the new Cloudron install where my backup was and it restored everything, pointed my domains to the new server, etc.
Jason Evangelho 🌊🏕️
@mdiluz Yea @mike just mentioned Yunohost alongside Cloudron. I'm definitely looking into both right now (I have a slight bit of experience with Cloudron from several years ago)
Marc
@killyourfm can be fine, but entirely depends on total load/traffic you expect, and also if you wanna have to do maintenance on everything at the same time!
btw, have you heard of https://yunohost.org/ ? Seems like a really cool effort for this kinda thing
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