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Awesome Open Source youtube channel isn't bad. He's fairly good at explaining a lot of the concepts. I wouldn't say I'd use everything he recommends but he gives you enough info to make some judgement calls.
I'd also highly recommend the Selfhosted podcast from Jupiter Broadcasting. Alex, the main host is with Tailscale these days, but don't let that put you off, he's been doing the podcast (and recommending Tailscale) since long before he started working with them. I imagine there's a YT channel for the show, but I've only ever listened to the podcast.
Also, 2.5 Admins from Late Night Linux group of podcasts has Jim Salter and Alan Jude, both long time sysadmins and developers that have a lot to talk about that's of interest to self-hosters and professionals alike.
I'd also highly recommend getting boned up on basic Docker usage, and would point you towards starting right from the beginning to use docker compose with local bind mounts, and ignore these one-line docker commands to start containers. There are helper apps like Lazydocker to assist using Docker from the command line. While you can use GUI apps like Portainer, honestly you'll just end up more confused than pasting stuff into a compose file and watching it with Lazydocker.
And feel free to ping me if you get confused, I've helped a few people sort out what they want to accomplish and point them the least-effort direction, or at least what I consider such.
Holy moley!! Seriously, really appreciate all those resources and the time it must have taken to write that!! Super excited to get stuck into this so will absolutely be making my way through all of these!!