06-11-2020, 08:22 PM
I don't know what your current hosting setup is like, but if you are using a VPS or similar then running your backend services in Docker containers would (in theory) simplify setting up those services on a new host. I don't know what your technical knowledge level is, but to put it simply a Docker container is a bare minimum environment to run your program (myBB), but with your dependencies pre-installed (PHP for example). People have made public Dockerfiles for most popular programs out there, so your setup on a new host would be almost as simple as (1) install Docker, (2) Run myBB, your preferred database, nginx, etc from the public Dockerfiles.
In practice the setup would be slightly more complicated, as Docker containers are fairly isolated by default. Docker compose is a part of Docker that lets you bundle programs together (myBB, mySQL, etc), and exposes parts of them to each other, which would require some small configuration.
If you already have a system you are comfortable with, Docker probably wouldn't provide too much benefit. But once you are comfortable with Docker it can be nicer to work with, and it much more OS agnostic.
In practice the setup would be slightly more complicated, as Docker containers are fairly isolated by default. Docker compose is a part of Docker that lets you bundle programs together (myBB, mySQL, etc), and exposes parts of them to each other, which would require some small configuration.
If you already have a system you are comfortable with, Docker probably wouldn't provide too much benefit. But once you are comfortable with Docker it can be nicer to work with, and it much more OS agnostic.