Hi, I got a small server as a for-fun-project and I really enjoy having it. With all the stuff going on in the world I would like to self host more things, but I’m pretty new to the scene. So far it’s just an old desktop with Ubuntu server os acting as media server. I would like to add some sort of lightweight and preferably open source file share akin to Google Drive with the ability to save/upload, view and edit files on the server from the outside internet. I’d also like a shared calendar that can also be accessed from the internet. Do you have any good recommendations this? Thanks

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    Interesting, what OS are you running? I’ve never ran into one that it doesn’t work on so that’s surprising.

    I would counter that disadvantage with this: due to testing constraints, docker containers are usually updated more quickly when there’s a 0 day, and you don’t have to patch your entire OS if one single container has one. It reduces operator overhead greatly, because that’s what it’s designed to do. Even if one of your containers has a vulnerability, because it’s a container, it won’t necessarily affect your entire system, depending on the vulnerability.

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        Ah, yeah, OpenBSD would do it. You’d basically be limited to running it in a VM which would have severe overhead. For Linux based stuff, though, it has minimal overhead.