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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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[–] PieMePlenty 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's too broad of a field to cover in one book. Id recommend getting an idea of what you want to achieve and work towards that. You will learn along the way.

Ex: I want my own google photos alternative.

This will lead you to figure out which service to host, the operating system you should use and what kind of hardware you want to run it while factoring your power draw requirements, network needs, security, and ease of access. Use more than one guide and ask yourself why one guide does something differently than the other.

The next time you want to host something similar, you will already have answers to these questions.

As step one, I'd get familiar with linux CLI. Get a hello world website running and access it from a device on your network. Preferably without docker because copy pasting a docker run command will teach you nothing.