Thanks again! I appreciate your help – into the rabbit hole I go!

Thank you for taking the time to reply! That is very helpful.

It sounds like you are a few steps (pun intended) ahead of me in your footwear journey. You have already provided a ton of great info re: the world of hiking that I’ll dive into and research, but do you mind if I ask what your “daily driver” (every day footwear) is at this point?

As you’ve noted, my Vans are probably doing more harm than good, so I’m looking to move away from them in every aspect of my life.

Thanks again for your help.

A combo of both. I group all my media apps like Sonarr, Radarr, SABnzbd, etc together in one compose since I consider each of them to be a part of the same “machine”, but most of my apps have their own compose.

I have an HP DL380 Gen8 and then a PC I bought from the local university and use as a server.

My DL380 runs ESXi. My PC runs Ubuntu on bare metal.

All of my apps are either fully VM-based (Home Assistant OS) or run in containers. Containers are far easier to build, upgrade, and migrate, and also make file management a lot easier.

I use Docker Compose. No Swarm or Kubernetes at this point.

Hopefully this is at least a good start! Let me know if you have any questions.