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I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organized (blog.strawberrycloud.org)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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In this post I share some my personal journey with some selfhostesd open source apps and how they helped me. Maybey you will find some stuff in there that helps you as well.

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[–] elvith@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

My journey:

Had some form of Linux for a long time. Either in a VM (Oracle Virtual Box, then switched to S HyperV for compatibility reasons as I had Windows Pro anyways) or sometimes as dual boot.

Then came WSL which eased some things and complicated others. What this makes really easy is to start and play around with docker containers on your PC.

Then I experimented with Linux in a VM and put docker and other software there to practice.

Up until here, there were no costs involved (besides having Windows Pro, but depending on where you get your windows key, there's not a real difference between pro and home anyways....).

After that I got my own VPS. As much as I don't like AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and such, they usually offer a very small VPS for free and these can be a good point to start. If you want to really go and host things, it can be beneficial to look for a hoster that isn't one of the big 3 cloud providers and pay for a VPS there.

For hosting at home: You could start with a raspberry pi, but looking at current prices, you usually get more flexibility and bang for the buck by buying a refurbished mini PC or repurposing an old notebook/PC. You can just put Yunohost or Proxmox on it and get going.