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Why is starting with Self-hosting so daunting? (alien.top)
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I’ve been a Software Engineering Student for 2 years now. I understand networks and whatnot at a theoretical level to some degree.

I’ve developed applications and hosted them through docker on Google Cloud for school projects.

I’ve tinkered with my router, port forwarded video game servers and hosted Discord bots for a few years (familiar with Websockets and IP/NAT/WAN and whatnot)

Yet I’ve been trying to improve my setup now that my old laptop has become my homelab and everything I try to do is so daunting.

Reverse proxy, VPN, Cloudfare bullshit, and so many more things get thrown around so much in this sub and other resources, yet I can barely find info on HOW to set up this things. Most blogs and articles I find are about what they are which I already know. And the few that actually explain how to set it up are just throwing so many more concepts at me that I can’t keep up.

Why is self-hosting so daunting? I feel like even though I understand how many of these things work I can’t get anything actually running!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d just install Docker and add a CloudFlare Tunnel to securely host your stuff. No need to open any ports, your WAN IP remains hidden and you have the benefits of DDoS protection. It’s free as well; all you need is a domain name for which you can configure the nameservers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Putting a server in front of my own defeats the whole purpose of self-hosting for me.

I didn’t say CloudFlare “bullshit” so aggressively for no reason.

I want to learn, because I feel like I should know how to deploy stuff and my uni is not teaching me.