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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start

I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
gamermanh ,
@gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

For me #2 would be “you have ADHD and won’t be able to be medicated so just don’t”

I’ve mentioned elsewhere my server upgrade project took longer than expected.

Just last night I threw it all into the trash because I just can’t anymore

Decronym Bot , (edited )

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NAT Network Address Translation
NFS Network File System, a Unix-based file-sharing protocol known for performance and efficiency
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
Plex Brand of media server package
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SMB Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity
k8s Kubernetes container management package
nginx Popular HTTP server

20 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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multicolorKnight ,
  1. Control and privacy. The server does exactly what I choose, not somebody’s business model.
  2. Once you have other users, it’s not a hobby anymore. People are not amused by downtime.
  3. The w3schools.com tutorials have been good for me.
UselesslyBrisk ,
  1. Things like changes to TOS or services can be seriously mitigated by hosting it yourself. WHat happens if Spotify changes the music they host or inserts ads into everything. Well for me, nothing. On the flip side, if some of my stuff goes down, kids and wife will bark. But honestly its mostly set it and forget it.
  2. KISS is a thing that applies to many things in life. Anything “smart” in your home should ideally function without your “smart” features working. Ie: light switches should be dumb light switches if something breaks etc etc. Also dont get caught in using rack or enterprise gear. You can learn just as much using smaller, fatter desktops with bigger fans and air cooling over a power hungry rack servers with 80mm fans that blow your eardrums out. My entire lab runs on old dell workstations and raspberry pis’
  3. www.servethehome.com -
jimmy90 ,

NixOS is awesome!

jimmy90 ,

although maybe not for beginners. for beginners use docker compose and do backups however you like

Landless2029 ,

Can you clarify on how NixOS is great for selfhosting? I was going to do mint.

Kaufman5000 ,

As far as operating systems goes, i would recommend Debian or Ubuntu. These are very wiedly used and there are many resources. And if you are brave, you can start without a Desktop.

jimmy90 ,

you configure your whole server in one file (including docker/podman services), installation and configurations is taken care of by the package manager, you pretty much only need to know one file to admin your system

and no extra stuff is installed only what you specify so you have a minimal resource usage.

i think this is awesome

possiblylinux127 ,

Not as good as Ansible although they are different tools

ikidd ,
@ikidd@lemmy.world avatar

That sex isn’t love.

invisiblegorilla ,

And love isn’t sex

LastoftheDinosaurs ,
@LastoftheDinosaurs@reddthat.com avatar

Regarding your third point, you might find it helpful to search for beginners’ guides whenever starting a new project. One thing that people don’t seem to tell new users about is the struggles they faced when getting started themselves. Countless thousands of hours could be spent on this before someone decides to get started, while others pick it up in a much shorter timeframe. It just depends on you and what you are looking to get out of it.

It’s much more difficult than many people realize. If you need a space to test things out, I’d recommend installing VirtualBox with a couple of VMs to host whatever services you decide on. You can take a snapshot of the VM at any point in time, so when things go bad, you can simply restore whichever snapshot you like.

VitabytesDev ,
  1. Not having to give up my privacy for everything.
  2. GUIs are not needed when self-hosting. (I mean when deploying services)
  3. Learn Linux and start simple with a Raspberry Pi or laptop. That’s how I started.
LastoftheDinosaurs ,
@LastoftheDinosaurs@reddthat.com avatar

For your first point: Work experience, to save money, and just because it’s cool.

There are other benefits that I’ll mention depending on whether I think the person I’m talking to might value them or not, but these are my reasons.

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