New to self hosting with a silly question

Posted by astrodized

So, I'm currently running ZimaOS with just a crafty server on my old laptop from college, but I want to build an ARR stack. If I were to run the command on the Zima server, would it clash and break it? Would it create its own lil app on the front page? Would it give me an error and do nothing? I'm a little nervous to just let it rip and see what happens. THANK YOUUUUU

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Chris wrote:

Good question, and no need to be nervous! SparkBox won't touch or break your Crafty server -- it installs its own set of Docker containers on their own ports and doesn't interfere with unrelated apps already running on the box. Before it does anything, the installer runs a preflight check for a handful of ports SparkBox needs (like 8443 for the dashboard, 9000 for Portainer, 51820/51821 for WireGuard); if one of those happens to already be in use, it just warns you and continues -- nothing gets killed or overwritten. If a conflict does show up, you can move the dashboard to a different port with SBDASHBOARDPORT before installing. So worst case is a warning to fix, not breakage. Give it a shot!