Requirements:
- based on Debian GNU/Linux
- easy to install/uninstall services
Services I’m interested in:
- several crypto nodes: BTC, BCH, ETH light node (Helios), XMR, ZEC, etc.
- Nostr
- SimpleX
- xBrowserSync
- taskwarrior
- Synchthing
- Mastodon
- vdirsyncer
- Element/Matrix
Is using containers with docker/podman on plain Debian the best approach for simplicity?
Does it make sense to have more than one VPS? E.g. one for crypto nodes and another one for the rest?
Ubuntu Server, Debian, or Rocky Linux will save you a lot of headaches.
Most software is designed with these major distros in mind and using something more obscure will just cause problems later on when you realise that there are no guides written for it by the software vendor. Fixing broken software gets old really fast especially when it causes your stuff to break when you’re actually trying to use it.