Hey selfhosters.

I have a question about starting self hosting; I have run Jellyfin on an old MacBook for a bit and wanna dip more than a toe into the self host pool. Are there any guides out there you’d recommend for actual, complete beginners who knows nothing but wants to learn?

I’ve searched a lot but it feels like they’re pretty advanced for beginners. Is it just a really sharp learning curve to this, or am I not finding the good ones?

Edit: To clarify what level I’m really, truly at: I run the Jellyfin server on regular macOS and have an external 5TB drive connected via usb. That’s it.

  • towerful@programming.devEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    I’d start with learning some networking basics.
    Subnets, default gateways, DNS, routes, VLANs.

    Then get another computer to install proxmox on.
    Learn VMs, SSH, firewalls, basically Linux. Probably VPNs as well.

    Then set up a VM and play with docker & docker-compose.

    And that’s most of the tooling to be able to self host anything. A VM with docker, set up the docker compose of what you want, boom: done.
    Some projects are more of a “full of” kinda thing (like home assistant), which would be its own VM