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    1. Home-lab set-up ... Docker vs native servers? Pros and cons of each?

      And as long as I'm asking ... nginx or Apache (or Caddy or whatever else you think is best). I'm hosting a few web sites and services, but currently, everything is "out there" on VPSes. I want to...

      And as long as I'm asking ... nginx or Apache (or Caddy or whatever else you think is best).

      I'm hosting a few web sites and services, but currently, everything is "out there" on VPSes. I want to bring it all in-house, go back to the old days of actually hosting websites out of my living room.

      Towards that end, I am gradually upgrading and overhauling all the sites and services, fixing long-standing issues and inefficiencies in the config files, merging servers, etc.

      I have never learned Docker. I've started to several times, worked with it a bit on a job once, used it a bit here and there; so I'm not clueless, but it would be a learning curve.

      Also, I'm running one main service (Nextcloud) that officially, only supports Apache -- there absolutely are nginx setup guidelines and tutorials and such, but that's all unofficial, experimental setups.

      And I'm running another major service (Synapse), on nginx.

      And I want to merge the servers, and choose one web server to host both of them, and I don't know which way to go there.

      Thanks for any feedback.

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