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What to study to be able to host a site? (thebrainbin.org)

submitted 3 months ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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For some months now, I've been trying to set up an Mbin instance, since as it's more manual than the other softwares I found, and I understand things better if I can see the logic behind them. I'd rather do that before going for automated processes where if something breaks, I don't know how to handle. However, trying to figure things out as I go, it's so much stuff that I figured out instead what I knew was very little.

As I was also interested in hosting other sites, this made me reevaluate things, and turns out several things I don't know, like how to host two sites in a same machine, how to handle horizontal attacks, what some tools are used for, etc.

So going back to the title, what to study? Maybe some specific book? Private classes/courses? Online tutorials? Something else? Just no university suggestion, please - from experience, they are extremely shallow at best.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So going back to the title, what to study? Maybe some specific book? Private classes/courses?

Networking. If you want to understand the reasoning behind things this is where you start. A good foundation in tcp/ip, the 7 layer network stack, as well as basic network protocols (dns, dhcp, http, etc.) will go a long way toward helping you troubleshoot when things go wrong.

Maybe throw in some operating systems study as well for when you start to use docker.

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks!

About studying about operating systems and docker, I think I know what you mean. I had come across some info on docker already, and it sounded like a system image, as you'd get on a VM or with dd, or a disc ISO or disk ROM dump.

Will make sure to look further into it!