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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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Do you think people still know what a phone book is? Or are we old?

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 2 points 3 months ago

@grok what is a phone book?

[–] tobz619@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Ow, my back xD. I'm struggling to think of some other key-value mapping that's available in the real world that works tbf. I was gonna say TV Channel numbers to Channel names...but then I'm really showing my age lmao

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

I'm around my 30's and I also struggle to think of examples not at least as old as me. e.e''