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What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches? (lemm.ee)
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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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[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 34 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

You don't need to be a programmer to selfhost.

The most important "skills" to have if you want to selfhost imo are:

  • Basic Networking knowledge

  • Basic Linux knowledge

  • Basic docker/docker compose knowledge

But I'd say to not get lost in the papers and just jump right in. Imo, the best way to learn how to selfhost is to just... Do it. Most everything is free and fairly well documented

[–] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 1 points 51 minutes ago

Totally agree! I'm not a programmer and I have several services running in my home server. I'm just curious and have used Linux for a decade as a normal user. With just these 3 basic knowledge skills you're good to go.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 9 points 17 hours ago

Perseverance