If you’re into developing and stuff, GitLab

Plex server

Jellyfin server

ELK stack or security onion

Get steam working, connect via steam link.

Everyone is gonna learn best differently. There’s no best place to start.

Id start with solving a problem. For me, this was not wanting to make a backup to transfer my data from my old machine to my new one. So I built a little Ubuntu Server, setup a rudimentary samba share, setup users/groups, and figured out how to access that data from my network.

Docker is easy, you’ll learn it by mistake. It’ll haunt you like it’s some complicated thing until you realize you’re doing it and it’s literally incredibly straightforward.

From there, Id maybe say go to WordPress and follow instructions about setting up a WordPress site in a docker container. Oops, you just learned docker.

Id hold off on hosting email. I mean it’s a noble goal but it’s a fucking headache. But that’s just me! Like I said, everyone’s different.

Piece of advice, before you go hosting a monero server, dig into cybersecurity. Particularly server hardening. I recommend Hack The Box. There’s tons of platforms, though.

Linux: 9/10

Linux with rice: 10/10

SMART tools

sudo apt-get install smartmontools

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX where sdX is your drive in question (sdA, sdB, etc).

| grep Power_On_Hours

| grep Power_Cycle_Count

This just tells you how much that drive was used in the past, It’s not a perfect to test but it’s what I do 🤷‍♂️

It’s a gamble.

When you lose, you can simply return it.

When you win, you get a hard drive that works for really cheap.

I purchased one in 2020 that I still haven’t replaced, although I’m buying the replacement now as it has begun it’s slow certain death.

Damn that sucks that theyve not been moderating since then…

She’s probs the most knowledgeable seeming talking head on the team.

🖕 my home server disagrees 🏴‍☠️

Also, massive security surfaces.

Any music producer is familiar with 3rd party license managers like ilok that make you use their Shit-ass electron application that gets an update once every few years.

Their procurement policy is basically “has it been recommended? Is anyone else using it? Is it cheap?”

I work in public sector.

Market to tax funded institutions. If you can market “self hosted” as cheaper and easier than mother solutions you’ll have guaranteed clients for a long time.

Ubuntu is a good idea to get the new one of the best ones in the world and the other one is a little bit of a lot of people who are like a lot of people who are like that and I don’t know what to do with it but I don’t know what to do with it but I think they are going to be a good day to go to the store.

Smells like toast.

This is the way.

These days id prefer a developer produce negative lines of code without breaking anything.

Hahaha. I purposely got a jibberish .xyz domain. If they ever ask for more than the $9.99 a year they can pound sand.

It is absolutely a dangerous life lol.

I keep everything backed up. It was a temporary purchase that I fully did not expect to last 5 years.

It’s literally been a clicker since day 1 lol.

No failures. No slow reads. Just a zombie beast.

I’m using a western digital refurb HDD. 14TB.

running 24/7 pretty much since the pandemic. It’s basically my media server.

They’ve been my go-to rec for like 6 years 😢

Their support is top tier, which is important when it’s important. But this complicates things. I’ll have to take a close look at the competition these days.

Damn. I always though they were one of the good ones.

Don’t get me started 😂

I worked for a company that had over 300 clients with sites with them. They don’t give a fuck. We literally moved over 300 accounts to another provider over their shit support/sales teams. Domain, hosting everything.

They. Don’t. Care.

They took down services by trying things that aren’t possible on their platform (DMARC for subdomain). Totally unacceptable. How tf do they not know that they can’t accommodate my request without damaging my infrastructure?! Other providers can do DMARC for subdimains?!? WTF?!?!

If they’re your provider and you’re in trouble, contact Newfold Digital support first. That’s their parents company. They tend to route you better than Bluehost does. Shit Bluehost chat support has been broken for like 3 months lmao.

Setup a VPN on a VPS. Use traefik and authelia. Authelia will be your authentication portal and traefik will tunnel the traffic from the auth portal to configd locations within the VPN. Get your home network on that VPN.

Choose VPS provider based on geographic location.