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What would be the best way to host a SimpleX smp and xftp server? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by adonkeystomple@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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So I have a couple options at my disposal. I’m fairly beginner with self hosting, with linux, and command line.

So my options are

  1. Run server via ubuntu vm on windows 11 machine that I already run my plex server and some game servers through.

  2. Use random other computer, install ubuntu or ubuntu server on and host that way. Not sure if ubuntu or ubuntu server would be better for me. I’m not sure what the hardware is yet, but I know it’s pretty old and likely lower end. I have very little cli experience and I want to learn to be better command line so maybe ubuntu server would be a good learning experience.

  3. Host it via docker on linux machine.

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[–] klankin@piefed.ca 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Thats how docker runs "natively" on windows, its kernel has no support for namespaces nor cgroups that containers require

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

WSL, Hyper-V and Windows Containers are all options

they have to be built specifically for windows (of course the kernels are different, so the binaries are going to be different) but you can run Windows native applications on Windows kernel with a different implementation of containers using the standard Docker CLI and interfaces

Cgroups are just 1 (by far the most common) implementation of the container backend

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mind linking the relavent simplex SMP/xftp windows container then?

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 0 points 19 hours ago

i’ve already linked the docs that state that native windows containers exist. whether or not specific images exist is not relevant

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No. You can install docker directly in Windows. OP is running a Linux VM and then docker inside of that.

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Docker desktop for Windows runs under WSL or Hyper-V, both being VMs themselves.

Arguably running a Linux VM themselves will only offer them more customisation options (although may be heavier than WSL)