u/Degenurtle

I am currently using Ubuntu however because it was my first server I mindlessly encrypted the drive which has become quite a pain given I turn my server off every night.

I am planning on taking the time to redo my setup from scratch. My question is should I use Ubuntu or Fedora. On one hand, Ubuntu has been pitched as ol' reliable with good documentation to boot but on the other hand, I am using Fedora as my daily driver so I assume the familiarity will help.

The apps I plan on hosting are: Vaultwarden, Filebrowser, Nextcloud, Jellyfin, and Navidrome.None of the apps I plan on self-hosting would be open to the internet. All of them will only be reachable through a tailscale tunnel.

Would love to hear your opinions on what I should choose and your reasonings as well.

Note: Thank you everyone for your replies! I didn't expect to get this many responses so I'm really grateful. I'm probably going to go with Debian instead of Ubuntu/Fedora. I'll also look into Proxmox but will save it for when I have some better hardware as I'm setting this server up on a really old laptop. There's also some context I could have provided in that I'm running it completely headless and SSH in from my desktop hence why the encryption was really annoying.

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u/Degenurtle — 13 days ago