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What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches? (lemm.ee)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) by owlinsight@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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For this new year, I’d like to learn the skills necessary to self host. Specifically, I would like to eventually be able to self host Nextcloud, Jellyfin and possibly my email server too.

I've have a basic level understanding of Python and Kotlin. Now I'm in the process of learning Linux through a virtual machine because I know Linux is better suited for self hosting.

Should I stick with Python? Or is JavaScript (or maybe Ruby) better suited for that purpose? I'm more than happy to learn a new language, but I'm unsure on which is better suited.

And if you could start again in your self hosting journey, what would you do differently? :)

EDIT: I wasn't expecting all these wonderful replies. You're all very kind people to share so much with me :)

The consensus seems to be that hosting your own email server might be a lot, so I might leave that as future project. But for Nextcloud and Jellyfin I saw a lot of great tips! I forgot to mention that ideally I would like to have Nextcloud available for multiple users (ie. family memebers) so indeed learning some basic networking/firewalling seems the bare minimum.

I also promise that I will carefully read the manuals!

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[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You don’t really need to know a specific language to self-host anything. But things like YAML, JSON, Docker, and some networking basic will go a long way.

If I could do anything different though, it would definitely be to write more documentation. Document the steps taking setting things up, log notes on when you have to fix something, archive webpages and videos that you used along the way. Currently doing that myself now after some time self-hosting.

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

One under-appreciated aspect of Docker is that it forces you to document all your setup steps in your dockerfile and docker-config files.