[tripledry]

What's a good alternative if I want to self host and convenience?

I have some hobby sites I host on a VM and currently I use docker-compose mainly because it's so "easy" to just ssh into the machine and run something like "git pull && docker-compose up" and I can have whatever services + reverse proxy running.

If I were to sum up the requirements it would be to run one command, either it succeeds or fails in it's entirety, minimal to no risk of messing up the env during deployment.

Nix seems interesting but I don't know how it compares (yet to take a good look at it).

[eudamoniac]

I don't know, that set of requirements sounds like containers are a good fit. I don't have an alternative for you. I would just ssh into the server and run the commands needed to update/start the services; it wouldn't be one command and it is not impossible to mess up.

I will say that consuming other people's services that I don't intend to develop on is easier with containers. I use podman for my jellyfin and Minecraft servers based on someone else's configs. My only issue with them is the complexity during development.

[JodieBenitez]

I have some hobby sites I host on a raspberry pi and currently I use make mainly because it's so "easy" to just ssh into the machine and run something like "pip install thing.whl && sudo systemctl restart thing" and I can have whatever services + reverse proxy running.