I have an old laptop that I want to turn into a server, but I want it to be as seamless as possible. I don’t have any knowledge in web hosting, so I’ll use whatever distribution makes it easiest.

Also willing to venture outside of Linux territory to try those NAS-like operating systems. I just want things to work.

I called it old, but the laptop in question actually has decent specs. I want to host a personal searx instance, a forum, nextcloud, and, well, I’d also like to run single-user fediverse instances but I heard that they’re very hard to manage and update so I’m still not sure about that.

  • Tane@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same for arch. Don’t use it for a server. It deleted php 7 and upgraded to 8 which broke my WordPress website.

    I never moved away to something more stable but it does cost me more effort than just going with Debian.

    • Nibodhika@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just use docker, relying on the packages inside your distro for that is a way of having a bad time. What if WordPress needed PHP 7 but Nextcloud needed 8? Or something similar. There’s a reason containerization is a thing, and the host OS is mostly irrelevant.