Glad to hear you enjoy it!

Halt and catch fire. Expected nothing from it but we are really enjoying it.

No worries, mate. The offer stands if you want it.

Have a great new year!

I’m by no means an expert in Linux, but my best advice for someone finding docker complicated is to run Portainer.
It’s made my Docker-life so much easier, especially if you run stacks with compose files. It’s all graphical via the browser interface.

Need to make a change to to one of your containers?
Change the compose file (which stays exactly like you pasted it originally) in Portainer and re-deploy.
Need to update the container?
Click update and it re-deploys with the newest image.
Want to stop a container?
Just click stop.

The first thing I’ve done on all my small servers is to get the Docker Daemon running with CLI in the terminal, install Portainer and do everything else there.

So if you’re dumb, then I’m dumb too, and it’s not very nice to call people you don’t know dumb, now is it…!?

Honestly, feel free to ask if you find the motivation to give it another crack and need some help. It’s made me go from hating Docker to absolutely loving it.

I agree.

It’s easy to forget how much time and dedication running a custom setup can cost, and that quickly drains whatever wife-acceptance-factor you had left.

Think of paying for a pre-built NAS less as just overpriced HW, but more as great software features that work out of the box and a dev team improving functionality for you every day.
It can host a plethora of containers with ease on the side anyways, and if you need something specific that requires more juice: build that on the side and tinker with it.

N100 mini-PC for instance can host anything but heavy game servers for <15W.

Sh.itjust.works has been brilliant, tbh.

High uptime, reasonable admins.

Very happy with it