Hey all,
Just wondering what the consensus is on hosting directly on a computer versus virtualization? Right now I’m hosting my Lemmy instance on a Hetzner VPS, but I would like to eventually migrate to my Linux box at home. It currently runs as a media PC (Ubuntu) in the living room, but I always intended to self-host other software on the side since it should be more than capable of doing both (Ryzen 5600G, 16gb DDR4).
I’m just torn though - should I host a virtual machine on it for Lemmy, or run it directly on Ubuntu as-is? I plan to do some further self-hosting projects as well later down the line.
One thing I think about is isolation. Do you want/need to strongly isolate the software and its data from the host operating system?
@otl
@rozno
Isolation make administration easier. In case of problems, you don’t need to worry how one application affects everything else, VMs and containers also gives you the ability to limit how much resources (CPU, memory, IO, etc.) each app uses.
Back in the day, this was the reason why companies had different physical servers for each application, even if a single server could, in theory, run all of them. Now we can do it with isolation techniques.