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Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by kiol@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Curious to know what the experiences are for those who are sticking to bare metal. Would like to better understand what keeps such admins from migrating to containers, Docker, Podman, Virtual Machines, etc. What keeps you on bare metal in 2025?

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[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I use Raspberry Pi 4 with 16GB SD-card. I simply don't have enough memory and CPU power for 15 separate database containers for every service which I want to use.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Databases on sd cards are a nightmare for sd card lifetimes. I would really recommend getting at least a USD SSD stick instead if you want to keep it compact.

Your SD card will die suddenly someday in the near future otherwise.

[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thank you for your advice. I do use an external hard drive for my data.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So, are you running 15 services on the Pi 4 without containers?

[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The list of what I run on my RPi:

Some of them run in containers, some of them run on the bare metal.

[–] kiol@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see. Are you the only user?

[–] kutsyk_alexander@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No.

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works -1 points 10 months ago

Is your favorite color purple?