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Starting to self host (jlai.lu)

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Please bear with me as I don't know where else to ask.

I want to start to self host but do not know where to start. I would like to start small. Just something that might not be beneficial but to get my feet wet. It does not even have to be practical.

I am not tech illiterate and have my fair share of technology around me hut self hosting has always been a daunting task.

I am scared to start.

I am already using a PiHole at home but that was kind of plug and play and just worked.

I would be incredibly grateful if someone could guide me to some resource or tell me what an easy first step would be.

An FAQ or self hosting for dummies.

Most resources I found assumed some previous knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Docker seems the way to go for me now! Thank you for the nice write up.

I definitely do not now what I am doing so the word of caution is greatly appreciated!

The whole thing about remotely accessing is probably something I put on my ToDo list as soon as I get a service up and running. Nevertheless reading it and just knowing about Wireguard and Tailscale is a huge benefit to me.

Is there a personal recommendation which of your listed projects to get started with?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Here are a few of my favorites, some of which are exposed, some are not:

Mealie - Recipe management. Import recipes by URL is my favorite feature, then I tweak and try it out (I have to be gluten free, so this makes it easy to track what worked for us).
Homepage - a homepage to put quick links to all of my stuff, neat and clean.
Grafana - for visualization of current data of my systems, paired with Prometheus.
Technitium DNS - for all of my DNS needs.
Jellyfin - for all my media, let's me pick out what my kids can see/watch without me having to look over their shoulder, along with being a great looking solution for me.
Immich - photo and video management

All of these (and more, this is just a dsmple of favorites) run on Proxmox. I mostly use LXC over docker, personal preference.

Home Assistant is probably the single most useful for me, already mentioned, just about everything at home is automated/controlled through there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

KitchenOwl and Pastes are probably the easiest to setup. Paperless is the most useful for me. Nextcloud can be a bitch to setup once you want to include Office functionality. I recommend the Nextcloud All-In-One to make it a bit easier.

In addition to the ones listed above, I can also recommend Home Assistant if you don't know it yet. If you like home automation you're in for a treat.