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"Ultimate" guide for literal beginners
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What will hell you in that journey: basic understanding of Linux cli (Debian is good choice), docker and docker compose (make sure you understand the concepts of images, containers, networks and volumes) and of one kind of web server (I'd recommend Caddy because it's rather simple). After that you basically use the often officially provided docker compose files to setup common self hostable services.