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Where to start as a beginner (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by BobGnarley@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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My ultimate goal with learning this is I want to self host my own Monero node and eventually maybe even self host emails and after that learn docker as well.

But I am a long, long way from there.

Where do I start with something like this if I have no experience with networking?

Should I just start with learning a VPS? I just don't like the idea of me not being able to physically control the server because I think one day Monero might be outlawed or something.

But I'll do whatever I have to to learn.

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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes. Every other email server will mark you as spam, and every spammer will be trying to use your server to spam others.

[–] emon@masto.top 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@catloaf @monkeyman512 well i might disagree on this.
I started selfhost a couple of services for private use with a pi2 some time ago, and after gaining experience, I finally selfhost almost everything I need : cloud, photos, backups, website, media streaming etc. Including a mail server, on a low voltage unit.
Okay the mail server was a bit trickier to setup but works fine now for 3 years. I'm not get spammed or mark as spam, even without static IP.

[–] emon@masto.top 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@catloaf @monkeyman512 If I can give one advice : learn docker first, rent a vps. If you want to move to physical self host it will force you to test how to deploy everything from one host to another which is a critical step after being able to have things just working.
The mail suite I use is mailcow-dockerized and it's awesome.

[–] jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I know a VPS is a simple thing in theory but sometimes it's a lot for a beginner.

A VPS paired with Docker may also unintentionally expose something not meant for the outside world due to it ignoring iptables and ufw