Continuing the discussion from Judy's Nextcloud:
I hear ya. And I fear that is going to the wayside. I mean, on one hand, Docker makes really complicated software accessible to a largely slice of the population than otherwise. Discourse comes to mine. They only support the Docker-install, because it is too complicated.
Nextcloud, also a weird creature, more of a business OS than a “web app”. And let me tell ya, that snapd install, it is pretty sweet. Does it all for you, keeps itself updated, whole deal.
For my personal hypertext repositories I generate plain ol’ index.html files, served up directly by Apache, no load balancer or reverse proxy needed.
@tim, re: your comment, when was the last time you installed something “bare metal”? Even my apache services are running on a VPS somewhere. Harumph. 