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What advice can you give to a beginner? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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You may have noticed a few of my posts here, I am very interested in self-hosting and what advice can you give to a newbie? maybe some literature, video, I don’t know~

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[–] tburkhol 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ditto. Started 20 years ago with one service I wanted. Complicated it a little more every time some new use case or interesting trinket came up, and now it's the most complicated network in the neighborhood. Weekend projects once a year add up.

If you have the resources, experiment with new services on a completely different server than everything else. The testing-production model exists for a reason: backups are good, but restoring everything is a pain in the ass.

I also like to keep a text editor open and paste everything I'm doing, as I do it, into that window. Clean it up a little, and you've got documentation for when you eventually have to change/fix it.

[–] Hominine 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I also like to keep a text editor open and paste everything I’m doing, as I do it, into that window. Clean it up a little, and you’ve got documentation for when you eventually have to change/fix it.

Smart stuff that is leaving me feeling dumb for not having thought of it myself, shell history is a poor substitute.

[–] anamethatisnt 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

For linux this is as easy as script , ex:
[user@fedoragaming ~]$ script 20240313InstallingJellyfin.log
Script started, output log file is '20240313InstallingJellyfin.log'.
[user@fedoragaming ~]$ exit
exit
Script done.

edit: and for Windows I recommend using putty, it can also save sessions to logs.

[–] Hominine 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks!