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Oh and if you don't want to go full nixos, you can just install whatever the base image for your server from the provider and run nix as a separate install for

• scott01 3y ago
  This is quite interesting, thanks for recommendation, I'll investigate this. Are you aware of any edge cases or inconveniences of this approach I can keep in mind while experimenting?
  • exe34 3y ago
    Well nixos is really great if your package and options are already thought through by the maintainers, although you might have to read through nixpkgs for options. It's more painful if you need X compiled with Y enabled and it needs to rebuild (might be slow on vps), and if your package isn't included at all, it can be a pain to add a new one and get all the dependencies included. Once it works though, it basically never breaks - you can always pick an older working version. Oh and it eats disk space like there's no tomorrow if you have multiple generations retained.