I installed Mint in a cheap mini PC to self host, and have had problems with external USB storage drives.
They kept dismounting, until I realised you have to give them a permanent mount location (why?!).
And they kept losing power because Linux had a default setting that USB devices 'auto suspend' after some time. This took ages to diagnose, and command line stuff to fix 😔
Other than that it seems to be a solid distro.
Also - I think these distros should make it simpler to partition the SSD on install. I used to easily do that when building Windows PCs but it was not clear I was making the right choices with Mint, so I went with the default.
I thought that I would need Yunohost to take care of all the web hosting stuff in the back ground...? Are you saying to just push files into the VPS barebones, or into Yunohosts website app shell? (Sorry I'm new to VPS stuff).
And how would you push the files from Codeberg? what is the method?
We just put some of these privacy alternatives on a map: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html (scroll down)
What's missing is anything truly FOSS with no fixed country of origin, but it's still fun to see how some of the main players spread out.
Enjoy!