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.
if it’s a really old laptop, Ubuntu might be overkill, spec-wise. In that case i would suggest Alpine Linux, it’s super lightweight and a really good distro for server use.
Hard agree here. I’ve got a Raspberry Pi running so much crap on it in Docker that I’m always afraid the CPU and RAM are going through the roof but it’s usually super low on resource usage. It runs my smart home too so any strain on resources I’d imagine would be pretty obvious.
Can you run Alpine on a Raspberry Pi? In that case, I might consider it