Haven't tested it yet, but this listener comment is interesting. Would rather keep it visible than lose it to chat history:
I've been thinking about it, and the thing is, Cloudron is easy. It's not FOSS but it is Source Available and for $200 USD a year I can basically not worry about it. While I'd love to be on a FOSS stack managing my own Docker images, I'm afraid I'd be taking on a lot of sysadmin work. Cloudron uses Docker technology in the back end but they build their own Docker images with tight integration into the whole system, including account management. It's all just done for me so I can focus on the rest of life and doing fun Linux things like learning NixOS.
I hate being beholden to a solution that's not FOSS but I'm not motivated enough to learn Docker or Portainer yet. I'm fairly sure when it's going to really bite me, though, when someone asks me for help setting something similar up and I have to either encourage them to pay for something they might not be able to afford or admit I can't help because I never learned the proper way of doing it.
I also really like that Cloudron uses their own GitLab, so I can report problems without using freaking GitHub. It drives me nuts that the number of projects that require a Microsoft GitHub account to participate is so high.
Previous experience with Yunohost
My self-hosting infrastructure has just undergone a significant change. I run 90% of my services (Nextcloud, Synapse for my family, Git, etc.) on an AMD NUC (H5800, 32GB RAM), where I recently switched from the source-available Cloudron to the awesome open-source Yunohost for installing and managing that software.
The remaining 10% is what I'm using to talk to you with. It's a dirt-cheap VPS, solely for interfacing with the world at large. Unfortunately, Yunohost isn't an option on this VPS due to the provider's limitations, so I'm using Cloudron instead, taking advantage of its free tier to run just the two apps I need (Synapse and Mastodon).
I was here in November, excited about my switch to Yunohost. I've given up on Yunohost. When things break, I can't get support. I'm fully on Cloudron for self-hosting. It sucks that it's not FOSS, but at least it works, and having talked to support, I know they're willing to work with me if problems arise.
I encountered a conflict when running Synapse on matrix.domain.tld and Nextcloud on the root domain (domain.tld) when using a well-known for root domain Matrix aliases.
The real issue was that I couldn't find any support. Not for the first time using Yunohost, having something break, and being unable to find help from the community. I'm not sure if it's just me or perhaps a language barrier, but every time I use Yunohost I run into issues that I can't overcome.
I'm not trying to be disparaging of Yunohost; I just wanted to state that I no longer use or endorse Yunohost as an easy open-source Softaculous alternative. Things do regularly break and it can be hard to find support from the community (in my experience).
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Just asking because on the subject of self-hosting. I think Yunohost has the unique distinction of being the only open-source project that makes self-hosting so easy that almost anybody can do it.
In the source available world, there is Cloudron. Cloudron is a little more polished, a little easier to use, but it's not FOSS and it costs.
I'm just throwing that out there because if you're willing to use Cpanel, I figure you might have an interest in something like Yunohost. It's about as easy as Cpanel, but way more awesome. Way more Delicious FOSSy Linuxy.