For my home or personal server stuff... I'm pretty much using ProxMox as a VM host, with Ubuntu Server as the main server and mostly Docker configured with Caddy installed on the host. Most apps are stacked in /apps/appname/docker-compose.yaml with data directories mounted underneath. This just tends to simplify most of my backup/restore/migrate etc.
I just don't have the need to do a lot of work on the barebones server beyond basic ufw and getting Caddy and Docker running... Caddy will reverse-proxy all the apps running in containers. It really simplifies my setup.
That's essentially what I do (with a little extra step of having a dedicated server in Hetzner peered with my homelab with wireguard to use as internet facing proxy + offsite backup server).
Ah, also docker is managed with komo.do, but otherwise it is simple GUI over docker-compose
That's cool... I really should take a next step to bridge my home setup with my OVH server. It's a mixed bag, mostly in that the upgrade to "business" class from home is more than what I pay a month to rent the full server and IP block on OVH... But I've got a relatively big NAS at home I wouldn't mind leveraging more/better.
Aside: I really want to like NextCloud, but as much as I like aspects of it, I don't like plenty as well.