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What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by owlinsight@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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For this new year, I’d like to learn the skills necessary to self host. Specifically, I would like to eventually be able to self host Nextcloud, Jellyfin and possibly my email server too.

I've have a basic level understanding of Python and Kotlin. Now I'm in the process of learning Linux through a virtual machine because I know Linux is better suited for self hosting.

Should I stick with Python? Or is JavaScript (or maybe Ruby) better suited for that purpose? I'm more than happy to learn a new language, but I'm unsure on which is better suited.

And if you could start again in your self hosting journey, what would you do differently? :)

EDIT: I wasn't expecting all these wonderful replies. You're all very kind people to share so much with me :)

The consensus seems to be that hosting your own email server might be a lot, so I might leave that as future project. But for Nextcloud and Jellyfin I saw a lot of great tips! I forgot to mention that ideally I would like to have Nextcloud available for multiple users (ie. family memebers) so indeed learning some basic networking/firewalling seems the bare minimum.

I also promise that I will carefully read the manuals!

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No special knowledge needed except the very basic ability to understand and run commands from documentation.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Until you run into some kind of problem :D

[–] habitualTartare@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Setting up jellyfin, I used docker on debian, and an old Quadro card. What could possibly go wrong?

Turns out that week the Nvidia drivers got a faulty update pushed to debian stable and caused an error with getting the GPU to work in any container. I could either wait a week or pull the simple fix from testing. So impatiently I pulled it from testing.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Why didn't you do a rollback?

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really depends. I actually needed to learn a bit about networking to be able to host multiple things on nginx on the same port. Internally they run on different ports, but they can get routed by the host name

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Networking isn't specific to Linux. It's just networking. Nginx configs work the same on every OS.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Who said anything about linux