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Looking to start self hosting by going through Louis Rossman's recently released guide. Any pointers for a newbie are most welcome. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ramenshaman@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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First, a hardware question. I'm looking for a computer to use as a... router? Louis calls it a router but it's a computer that is upstream of my whole network and has two ethernet ports. And suggestions on this? Ideal amount or RAM? Ideal processor/speed? I have fiber internet, 10 gbps up and 10 gbps down, so I'm willing to spend a little more on higher bandwidth components. I'm assuming I won't need a GPU.

Anyways, has anyone had a chance to look at his guide? It's accompanied by two youtube videos that are about 7 hours each.

I don't expect to do everything in his guide. I'd like to be able to VPN into my home network and SSH into some of my projects, use Immich, check out Plex or similar, and set up a NAS. Maybe other stuff after that but those are my main interests.

Any advice/links for a beginner are more than welcome.

Edit: thanks for all the info, lots of good stuff here. OpenWRT seems to be the most frequently recommended thing here so I'm looking into that now. Unfortunately my current router/AP (Asus AX6600) is not supported. I was hoping to not have to replace it, it was kinda pricey, I got it when I upgraded to fiber since it can do 6.6gbps. I'm currently looking into devices I can put upstream of my current hardware but I might have to bite the bullet and replace it.

Edit 2: This is looking pretty good right now.

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[–] specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Proxmox

Unraid

UniFi

Raspberry Pi

Docker

I don’t have time to respond, but exploring the capabilities of any of those things would be a great place to start.

[–] TunaLobster@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Proxmox can be a bit of a bear to setup. The documentation is not very approachable for new users. It uses a lot of terms without definition which is a deadly sin of technical writing IMO. Guides for getting an Ubuntu Server VM setup vary wildly and often recommend outdated settings.

I'm totally on board with using it though. It eliminates the need to start from scratch when migrating to newer hardware.

Set up your favorite Linux server distro and then go ham on setting up docker (dockge is a great tool to introduce compose).

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You don't need any guides for it except for really niche cases.

For example Ubuntu VM; click create VM, choose Linux for the type, click next a bunch and choose your ISO image, CPU cores, and RAM. And you're done, there's no specific settings to use.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I need a guide

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

proxmox is pretty intuitive to use. You just have to make a lot of decisions to start with in regards to storage. I always go with one main drive with a partician for ZFS cache and at least two drives in the array for VMs that way if a drive fails everything is still good. Things get a little annoying if you're trying to pass through hardware.