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Comparison: Coop Cloud, Yunohost, similar platforms (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you have tried several self-hosting platforms like the above, please share your experience.

I have so far only tried Yunohost and I'm quite satisfied. It does help to read French, sometimes solutions can be hidden in French forum topics.

Coop Cloud seems to be docker-based, as far as I understand, and I just never managed to wrap my head around containers and why I should use them. Not sure though if Yunohost does container stuff in the background that I am not aware of?

I've just started to use my Yunohost installation for some small scale collaborative stuff so I really hope it scales (to probably not more than 100 users) and keeps running smoothly. Starting to host common stuff is a little more scary than just fucking up my own private files.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Yunohost tries to avoid using Docker as much as they can. In fact I would be surprised if you found Docker in use in any Yunohost app. Coop Cloud looks interesting but when it comes to usability Yunohost is clearly ahead. Another way to easily self host is the freemium https://www.cloudron.io/ though the admin interface software does not have a familiar open source license last time I looked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

@lemmyreader @schmorpel I'm using Yunohost for several years now. It is very comfy for a non-programmer to maintain. Also quite stable, except a few weird failures to restore backups. The biggest downsize is that app packaging needs to be maintained by someone. You get updates only when a packager brings you that update. For example, Discourse package is abandoned and now is so outdated that almost unusable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed, Yunohost is a pleasure to use. Discourse is quite a complex software package to install, therefore Discourse themselves recommend to use Docker for installing Discourse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are they anti-container or just anti-Docker, I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Here is a personal opinion from a YH forum moderator. https://forum.yunohost.org/t/yunohost-docker-containerized-app-packaging/27900/3 That forum thread shows one more self host option : https://cosmos-cloud.io/

And beware, Docker may be very popular but it also has drawbacks. One issue is that Docker can give firewall issues with ufw and if I remember correctly also with Yunohost.