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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • Forced updates and forced restarts. If you want a server that’s available 24/4 that’s a no no.

    That’s what did it for me. I started my selfhosting journey on a Windows 10 machine, I stalled Docker on it and all of my containers. Every time Windows forced an update and auto reset, I had to manually go back in, log in, spin up Docker again and every container (I now know that a lot of this can be automated but it’s a lot easier to manage a Linux server now). Plus the system requirements are significantly less. The Windows OS alone takes up a chunk of your storage and RAM right off the bat.

    I do have one Windows server VM because I enjoy the file system, and it doesn’t do forced resets, but most of my infrastructure is made up of Linux VMs on bare metal Proxmox machines.