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Self hosting what? I assume a piefed instance, but knowing for sure would be good. I host mastodon, but not piefed. The differences between those should be relatively minor.

The basics are similar:

Chose a backend platform (a vm in someone else’s cloud, your own network, etc.)
Spin up a vm
load docker or similar (I use both docker and k3s)
Instantiate your containers
get a domain chosen and ssl certs in place
put a reverse proxy in place
open everything up to the world
profit

I’d start simple and grow as you become more confident in your skills. It’s not rocket surgery - if you have advanced skills, you’ll be fine. Even playing with 1-6 above would be good for skill building.

There is nothing illegal about what you’ve stated thus far - so I’m not sure why you are approaching this from a secretive “throw away” standpoint. Why do you think secrecy is needed?

Your number 1 question can be quite involved, so that probably needs to be probed the most.

For 2 I’d do docker - very simple and straightforward.

For 3 it’s just getting your vm setup right. I’d probably recommend Ubuntu server and then put docker on that. Tons of guides for doing that. You could use other OS flavors, but Ubuntu is a good first choice.

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wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

It’s not rocket surgery

Easyto say for a rocket appliancists.

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- chris@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nor is it brain science… :)
  
  Yeah, I guess over my life I’ve acquired a lot of knowledge in a very niche field. I think of it as relatively easy, but I know it isn’t easy for everyone. But, hey, that’s why there are so many of us willing to teach you how to fish.
  
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TA_Help@piefed.social ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I want to self-host various personal services for myself though, not a piefed instance.

It’s natural to share different parts of your life with different people, at varying levels of intimacy. Something doesn’t have to be illegal or shameful for you not to want to talk about it at work. Using throw away accounts allows both parties the opportunity to keep a potential professional relationship separate from their personal account, which may give information about their private life that they don’t wish to share. I’m not ashamed of my main account, I’m just a big fan of sandboxing 🙂

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- chris@programming.dev ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Well, if you like sandboxing, Docker is absolutely for you!!
  
  With regards to the self-hosted aspect, pick one that really interests you, and get it up and running. That will give you experience and confidence going forward. The remaining items will be mostly cookie-cutter additions. If I also host that same item, I’d be happy to share samples of how I did it.
  
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  - TA_Help@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Thank you for the offer, that’s very kind. I’ll definitely be coming back to this community once I manage to get going.
    
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    chris@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The final thing I’ll say on this - as it directly ties back to your initial post. Don’t become paralyzed and neglect to start. Flip a coin, dartboard, whatever to pick your first one - there are no wrong answers. The truth is you’ll likely tear it down and redo it a half-dozen times before you are satisfied.
    
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Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Solid advice.

To selfhost you first need to know what you want to do, do you want your own vpn service? your website? home assistant? then you decide what you need to host it and start building from that.

I, for example, started the serious journey in 2016 with a raspberry pi 3.

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- chris@programming.dev ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Agreed - answering the first questions - and deciding where you are willing to accept risk is a huge portion of the process.
  
  Raspberry Pi’s are a huge gateway drug. :) My kubernetes cluster is 4 pi 4B’s in a rack. Great for learning and polishing skills.
  
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