Comment on Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home?

• morras@links.hackliberty.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  First, you need a use-case. It’s worthless to have a server just for the sake of it.

  For example, you may want to replace google photos by a local save of your photos.

  Or you may want to share your movies accross the home network. Or be able to access important documents from any device at home, without hosting them on any kind of cloud storage

  Or run a bunch of automation at home.

  TL;DR choose a service you use and would like to replace by something more private.

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• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  recommended resources for getting started?

  I don’t know where to start today, honestly.

  I started with books a long time ago:

  www.amazon.com/…/0130220051

  www.amazon.de/-/en/…/0132126958

  www.amazon.de/…/0131103628

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• PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The simple way is to Google ‘yunohost’ and install that on your spare machine, then just play around with what that offers.

  If you want, you could also dive deeper by installing Linux (e.g.Ubuntu), then installing Docker, then spin up Portainer as your first container.

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