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Setting up selfhosting without a terminal (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Every single time I talk to my friends, whom also want an *arr/Plex/VPN/Home Assistant setup like I've got, I can see the fear in their eyes when I mention Debian, Docker, and the terminal. It could be a case of "git gud", but I want to help them out with a setup like this, but with as low friction as possible. Ideally something completely GUI based, and very low maintenance.

I know of unRAID, and Portainer, but does anyone have any experience in setting up something like this for people whose knowledge of self hosting and networking aren't as good as yours?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not that I don't agree with encouraging learning and welcoming more people to self hosting, but at some point there's just a differentiating factor between paying for access to services for convenience and simplicity sake versus the higher friction process of learning to self host.

Even finding tools that can do this in more convenient or UI friendly ways shouldn't be spoon fed. I can't foresee a self hosted setup that at no point would ever need basic terminal knowledge. What happens when they want to migrate to a new server?