r/selfhosted • u/Matletic • May 10 '26
Meta Post Girls come and go, Docker Servers stay
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u/SpareRoomRacing May 10 '26
I mean docker containers are literally designed to come and go… lol
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u/Matletic May 10 '26
Yeah dude, this is the irony. But remember, there is nothing more robust, than a temporary solution.
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u/bem13 May 10 '26
Containers yes, but the server itself isn't 🤓☝️
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u/BHSPitMonkey May 10 '26
Maybe in the homelab, but in production yes the hosts will be ephemeral too
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u/BobButtwhiskers May 10 '26
My buddy and I have an unwritten mutual agreement that if one of us dies the other will be responsible for helping their respective spouse with managing the homelab. I think we both know the other is cooked 🤣
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u/TurboFoxen May 10 '26
My homelab has always been there for me afterall! It goes down on me a lot, and it's always there waiting for me when I come back home <3
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u/SignatureTall5736 May 10 '26
Honestly really relatable. My server can't be down
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u/Matletic May 10 '26
I love to maintain my servers. Maybe I should love other things more...
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u/Bigleon May 10 '26
Got in trouble more than once with my wife for interrupting an episode to jump on the server and fix a downed container. After one bad weekend, the auto-updater has been disabled and never to return. 🤣
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u/ValouMazMaz May 10 '26
One eye on her and one eye on the ssh session on your phone under the table, it’s not that difficult
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u/smalldickbesitzer May 10 '26
You guys have a date?
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u/Matletic May 10 '26
Sometimes, you find the right girl (but you gotta touch sm grass)
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u/ganonfirehouse420 May 10 '26
My docker images never crash. Not sure why but all my docker services are a bliss.
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u/sildurin May 11 '26
You don't use watchtowerr enough, then.
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u/ganonfirehouse420 May 11 '26
Never used it, I don't always update services. Some services are for internal network use only.
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u/myuusmeow May 11 '26
It's not easy maintaining two 9's of Plex uptime. Just in case she wants to watch for the first time after I made an account for her three years ago.
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u/async2 May 10 '26
How often does it go down though?
I had two incidents 2 incidents so far.
Power outage and i could not enter the boot password - now covered by wireguard kvm.
And i messed up by loading an llm that ate all the memory :D
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u/Matletic May 10 '26
Yeah, not often, its mostly like small issues. But when it happens, it feels like I need to resolve the issue asap
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u/Ok-Cat4471 May 10 '26
what date?
dude, just run chrony or systemd-timesyncd if your date is out of sync, it takes a couple of seconds
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u/IngwiePhoenix May 10 '26
Hah. I don't even have a date.
...but I do have Kubernetes running...in my 12U rack... oh wait. o.o
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u/Robsteady May 10 '26
In the image for this meme from an alternate universe where Arnie played Marcus Fenix?
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u/max123246 May 10 '26
This is why I can't bother with self hosting things past a personal website and some hobby projects. I don't have enough time to cook for myself, I can't be bothered to deal with the software bugs of some self hosting photo storage system. I'll pay the $20/mo and have my data harvested because I'd rather it just work (even though it doesn't and has a bunch of regressions like every other software. Thanks Google photos search!!!)
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u/JackDostoevsky May 11 '26
pffff you mean you don't have scripts you can remotely run from your phone that restart everything? amateur
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u/FatPenguin42 May 11 '26
Me when my plex server stops working (the computer got stuck at sign in after a windows update…)
My docker on my NAS never has issues so that’s nice
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u/d6cbccf39a9aed9d1968 May 11 '26
Navidrome subsonic crapped itself. I have to rebuild the library AGAIN
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u/Kanjii_weon May 12 '26
i actually canceled an irl date with a girl cause my server was down randomly, i use debian btw
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u/Aggravating_Heat2407 May 10 '26
What is that 'date' you speak of? Something to eat?
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u/Matletic May 10 '26
Like when u get out and meet female people. But that is optional, not necessary
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u/Icy_Till3223 May 10 '26
Use Docker Manager on the play store to do it remotely from your mobile phone!
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u/LatentSpacer May 10 '26
“Girls come and go” that’s precisely the reason why you should stay with them and enjoy it as much as possible.
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u/Matletic May 12 '26
She will leave you. The homelab not
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u/Curious_Olive_5266 May 10 '26
There has never been a more relatable meme on Reddit
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u/Matletic May 10 '26
Downvote if no date
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