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Thinking of getting into self hosting but I'm a complete noob (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think of myself as technically inclined. I have installed Linux multiple times and have basic command line knowledge, and I've programmed in many languages, with the most experience making a static website game using HTML/CSS/JS.

Additionally, I own the superspruce.org domain (my registrar is Dynadot), but I don't really know how to wield the power of owning a domain. I also have some spare computers to be used for hosting, a 2009 laptop running Lubuntu and a 3900X+32GB RAM desktop other running KDE Neon, but I'm also open to experimenting with cloud hosting too (I know, sacrilege here).

However, I don't know much about the TCP/IP protocol or other networking protocols. I'm happy to learn, but the curve would need to start gently.

I would want to try hosting my websites, and also a personal non-federated Lemmy instance to serve as a archivable forum for my games. Even if it's not very useful, it's great experience.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Also, when you start hosting more than 2-3 services, keeping them up-to-date might become a hassle which you can forget. For docker-based hosting I'd recommend you setup watchtower, which can keep your servives up-to-date for you.

I would caution against automatic updates! Notifications, yes absolutely. But automatically updating things is a great way to have things break suddenly when you're not in a good place to troubleshoot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Probably depends. There are some services which I know are rock solid and have never failed me when auto-updating in 2+ years now.

However you are right that it can cause issues. I forgot to mention monitoring totally. My bad. A service like uptime kuma is really worth having for that reason. For a few services that really saved me a few times tbh. I set it up to broadcast status changes to a telegram channel and a special mail inbox. But it can seemingly use any and all services under the sun.

If you only have a handful of services, manual updating is good for learning and can prevent problems by seeing them immediately. However once you have so many services that you can't possibly update them all or have the motivation to, it's better to let them auto-update and have a service like uptime kuma notifiy you if something goes wrong imo.

As with all things in the world, it's matter of striking the right balance of tradeoffs.