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Yes - they'll start automatically. There are other options for "restart" that define the behavior.

You can give whatever you like to "servicename" and use that rather than the ID.

For example:

docker run -d --name mysite --restart unless-stopped nginx

docker stop mysite

docker start mysite

At its simplest:

docker run -d --name servicename --restart unless-stopped container

That'll get you going. Youi'll have containers running, they restart, etc. There are more sophisticated ways of doing things (create a systemd file that starts/stops the container, use kubernetes, etc.) but if you're just starting this will likely work fine.

rclone & restic work okay together to create backups in a Google drive mount. There are "issues" with backing up to Google drive since it doesn't guarantee file names are unique which is... a choice... but it should be reliable enough.

Why would you want a mail specific stack of hosting, storage, indexing and frontends? If it's all plain text anyway so the regular storage solutions for files come a long way.

Because email has metadata. From, to, sent date, subject, etc. Plus attachments that may be binary.

Pdf? You converted plain text to something designed to preserve formatting? But why?

You could use maildir and find things with "grep" or any mail client like Thunderbird.

The data is relational. Spreadsheets are a pain to use for that.

LibreOffice Base seems like a good idea for something like this. SQL based with a UI to create forms, reports, etc.

It's probably one of the few times it would be an appropriate tool to use!

As I mentioned in reply to another comment of yours, the main difference in my opinion here is that I am posting this as an individual one-man company compared to something like Oracle. And the Oracle free tier still requires you to sign-up and provide your data. This free version does not have such a commitment.

I don't care who you are? Nor do I understand why that matters - it's not you I dislike it's your ads. You seem a decent fellow. The rules say "no spam" not "no spam unless you're, like, a super-cool dude with an exciting new project!"

You're welcome to create a [email protected] community for people who are interested in your product. It's free to create and you can share all the up-to-date and exciting changes you're making as much as you like.

You could also just downvote the posts you don’t want to see and move on, you don’t have to read my posts if you don’t like them.

I have. But this is never an effective strategy against fighting spam. Which is why I raised it as a question to the community.

Oracle's cloud platform has an "always free" plan that self-hosters tend to use - yet I don't think we'd accept Oracle posting monthly updates in this community. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this community should be for ads then?

If users were posting and discussing products that's something else. That's a community discussing things they find interesting or useful. Direct advertising is just self-serving. You can pretend it's not - but we both know it is.

These XPipe posts have gone well beyond "I did a thing" and are starting to feel like I've subscribed for release updates that I can't unsubscribe from for a product I will never use. So at this point it's spam.

Edit: Well - I guess I could block you as a user - which I don't really want to... But that seems to be the only option open to me.

That isn't the question at all. It's about whether we allow companies to market directly in this community. And apparently we do.

If you decided to devote all your time and energy to a project that was supposed to pay your bills, would you just sit and twiddle your thumbs thinking “if you build it, they will come”? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

No - I would shamelessly advertise it on every platform that let me. Which is what this person is doing. It's a commercial product - they even call attention to that in their ad.

I would argue that all advertising is bad. This is a commercial product that the author has been sending near monthly updates to linux@ and selfhosting@ communities for some time.