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guides to know all about self host? (for beginners ) (futurology.today)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I want to self host some services for me and my first questions is: Any guide or book, or wtv, you recommend to understand self host world? I want to understand all things about it, but dont know where to start. And the guides for beginners i found on internet are very basic, just seems things like "do that, do this, and go" . I want to fully understand the world of self host. I want to understand firewalls, DyanmicDNS, MeshVPN; How to do self host; what not to do, what precautions, etc, etc. thx

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[–] thirdBreakfast 2 points 3 weeks ago

For the moment, I think the best advice is to learn Linux. If you want an "all in one place" approach to that, it would mean one of the Linux administration courses on Udemy, but there's also heaps of good beginner content on YouTube. I imagine by the time you got half way through the course and could spin up a VPS, point a domain name at it, and run things in Docker you'd be ready to shift your learning to the practical things you wanted to host then learn that way - by trying.

This has come up a few times on Lemmy and elsewhere, and I'd love us (the community) to come up with a better answer - some sort of "Self-Hosting for Dummies" starter document, but spanning the giant divide between the general overview and practical achievements, and then keeping it up to date would be a Herculean task.