Hi, I want to host a private Lemmy server under example.com mostly to be used without association (federation) with other Lemmy servers - this is due to the nature of the Lemmy server. It is going to be used only by people from a specific country, so in its initial phase, I am pretty sure these people won’t care about any other servers not in this country’s language. Anyway, that’s besides the point.
The thing is I already have a Hetzner instance where I have set up an NGINX server hosting a couple of PHP websites - Wordpress and Mybb forum using mariaDB database and php 8.1.
The instance is running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS - which method of installing Lemmy would make sense? Docker, Ansible, or from scratch, as it is documented here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/install_docker.html ?
I just do not want to disturb my currently installed websites on this server.
Any recommendations?
If you want it to not affect other systems, a container is the obvious choice.
If I did not have any constraints, which method would be the best choice? I want to make upgrades as painless as possible as I plan to follow releases to stay up to date.
I’d say this comes down to your experience with Docker (or whatever you use to containerize).
Generally speaking updates are as easy as pulling the updated image, but if something goes wrong you should know how to run commands inside the container, access the database, etc. Containerization can be painful if you don’t work with it everyday, but at the same time it brings so many advantages and it’s not hard to learn.