If anyone has the desire to get into self-hosting, my advice (after a couple of fun evenings 😬 ) would be: keep your networking *simple* - flat network, no vlans. You will avoid *so many* hard-to-debug problems (like needing an mDNS repeater such as Avahi, so that my Home Assistant HomeKit bridge can be picked up by my iPhone/etc in the other VLAN).

If you really want to use VLANs, then at the very least stick to one per Ethernet port per computer.

Having multiple small, cheap computers is in many ways less painful than having one large, powerful PC and plonking a thousand docker containers on it.

Some of that is just Docker being an awkward fit for hosting lots of stateful apps. Part of it is that although the alternatives (e.g., Proxmox) are more flexible, they're *way* less plug-and-play, at least for what I'm doing.

@ipsi That’s where I wound up, though I feel like if I were more experienced with networking things, it wouldn’t be that bad to actually separate my networks out. But avoiding Avahi is indeed one of the main reasons I couldn’t be arsed to keep that setup around.

@ipsi Honestly at this point, mostly “run all my personal things on Tailscale” is the end result.