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Hello everyone!

First off, let me say I’ve been fantasizing about self-hosting SOMETHING because of how many things I see in this sub.

That being said, i have no clue where to start.

I am planning on revamping my local setup at home to accommodate a lot more things. Right now, it’s just a mac mini, a windows laptop, and a monitor. I have about 3 external drives to fulfill my ever-growing need of storage, and thought of starting off with a storage server setup, that I can access over the internet.

Anyways, what other things would you recommend to setup? I am in desperate need of a hobby project, and feel like this will be the perfect one that will help me learn a thing or two as well!

Thanks in advance 😁

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What do you want to do with your server and how much budget do you have?

I probably can't help you, but others will need this information

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Proxmox on the host, setup some apps in LXCs and some others inside docker. Pihole, tailscale, maybe home assistant if you have IoT devices

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Also a media server with Jellyfin, radarr, sonarr is pretty fun to make and nice to have. Every service on LXCs and with this scripts tteck is damn easy. Also this tutorial is a game changer Unprivileged LXCs you can mount CIFS shares in to the unprivileged LXCs with samba.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Go through all the apps on your phone that have to talk to the cloud to do their job. Most of them can be replaced with privacy preserving self-hosted alternatives.

A good starting point would probably be Nextcloud. And remember to also think about a backup strategy for important data.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Often for people who ask this kind of question things like /r/CosmosServer or CasaOS are ideal as first step.

But you could simply search this sub because this exact post has been made countless times already.