Self-Hosting like it's 2025

Last thing I need is Kubernetes at home

It is still my opinion that most businesses do not need Kubernetes, and neither should anyone self-hosting a service at home.

I can see running something in a Docker container, and while I'd advise against containers what ships with EVERYTHING, I'd also advise against using Docker-compose to spin up an ungodly amount of containers for every service.

You shouldn't be running multiple instances of Postgresql, or anything for that matter, at home. Find a service that can be installed using your operating systems package manager and set everything to auto-update.

Whatever you're self-hosting, be it for yourself, family or a few friends, there's absolutely nothing wrong with SQLite, files on disk or using the passwd file as your authentication backend.

If you are self hosting Kubernetes to learn Kubernetes, then by all means go ahead and do so. For actual use, stay away from anything more complex than a Unix around the year 2000.