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== 1. Building My System Piece by Piece ==

Back when I started getting into self managing my own servers 15 years ago, my setup wasn’t built all at once. It was cobbled together using the hardware I had lying around; old laptops, physical servers &amp; spare drives. As these machines aged, broke, or were [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X86F1j5gCQs bashed in with a titanium nightstick when they frustrated me], I started turning their hard drives into virtual machines. This was as simple as using <code>ddrescue</code> to create an image of the working hard drive, then using Virtual Machine Manager to run that image.

* '''Why not Docker?''' By the time docker even came out(around 2013), I already had 3 virtual machines that were created from disk images of machines that were running in my closet or my store. At the time, Docker didn’t even exist. Rebuilding everything using docker from scratch once it came out wasn’t an efficient use of time while running a business &amp; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFVwQCFhKSE wasting most of my spare time fighting my state’s incompetent government].

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