These are my rough notes from when I was looking for a self-hosting platform. I tried both [[Cloudron]] and [[YunoHost]], and eventually stuck with YunoHost.
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YunoHost has more apps and a stronger ethos. It would be a no-brainer for me, but for a couple of things:
So it kind of swings on if I have time to properly maintain it, which was partially what I was hoping to avoid having to do.
But now just reading more about Yunohost’s aims - https://yunohost.org/#/faq and https://yunohost.org/#/project_organization - I feel like I can’t not support them. If if needs a bit more time going in, so be itβ¦ gotta live your principles if you can. So that’s kind of made my mind up. I’ll definitely start with Yunohost for personal stuff and switch only if I hit some major bumps.
If this was for work purposes, I would probably have to choose Cloudron right now, for the sake of robustness.
An excellent thread on the topic here: https://forum.cloudron.io/post/10860
A good post from socialism.tools that mirrors my thoughts pretty closely: Cloudron vs. YunoHost - the self-host app showdown
Cloudron basically sets up docker and then pulls in containers.
YunoHost installs Debian and configures the software directly on top of that, mingled together.
https://yunohost.org/#/faq and https://yunohost.org/#/project_organization
The fact YunoHost has the Anarchist Library as an app tells you something about its ethics :) (though I think it’s partly enabled by it building on top of [[Debian]], which also bundles that library IIRC).
Yunohost is best if you are price sensitive but it doesn’t use containers and really depends if you want to take that risk.
> keeping those apps updates is a lot of work. I imagine it’s a lot of thankless work.
> It’s a side effect of not using containers.
Interesting, yunohost seems to be idealogically opposed to things such as docker and ansible: https://forum.yunohost.org/t/suggestion-lemmy-une-alternative-federee-a-reddit/10508/2
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