Do This Before Self-Hosting: Understand What You're Doing

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Ready to start your self-hosting journey? 🚀 Before you jump in, there's one critical step you can't skip: understanding what you're doing. In this video, I'll explain why reading documentation and knowing the "why" behind your actions are essential for successful self-hosting.

[squalazzo]

a collegue at work use to repeat "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing", often...

[AttitAgain]

This is precisely why I am here. I am in the process of deploying my own Matrix/Synapse server. I've seen many configs etc. I just want to make sure I fully understand all aspects of what I am giving access to, and why? Which components need what etc.

[Maccccccc]

I appreciate this video. It's really hard to not get overloaded on this subject with all the infinite possibilities you can have and the unlimited resources of information

[deucebigs]

this is the video i've been waiting for. please keep up these basics for dummies like me series

[royterhaar]

Great stuff! In addition, there is not only one golden truth of doing proper self-hosting, so keep your eyes open and also listen and learn from other youtubers; not only your favorite channel because we all make mistakes and sometimes other people do things better or give you ideas to improve your personal setup. And keep in mind that combining services sometimes give you better end-result and security. Keep it up Techdox! Thanks!

[billv]

I watched your two videos on setting up swarm on a raspi cluster and I appreciated the explanation you shared before the command. This was particularly true for setting up the volume. It was really helpful and I appreciate you advocating for people to learn and use the tools like GPT to gain more insight into the "why" behind the commands. Thanks Again, Great Content!

[pikepa]

Awesome video, makes a lot of sense. Thank You

[weholmes]

Agreed! I started earlier this year installing ProxMox on an old computer and Nextcloud was the first thing I tried. But I immediately abandoned it, realizing I needed to learn a lot more before proceeding. I spent 2 months learning Linux commands, certs, firewalls, ZFS, backup, etc. After watching several videos including yours, I successfully deployed Vaultwarden. I’ve made detailed notes at every step so I can change, fix, or redo everything. I”ll try Immich next. Nextcloud? Maybe later😅

[Javaman]

I DID watch it until the end and you got yourself another subscriber! I got sucked into this rabbit hole this long cold winter. Well, I guess this journey started long, long ago before you and many other people here were born. lol My thoughts are, if you are not learning something new every day, what are you doing with your life?!

[VN_]

I watch till the end! 7 month later but I did! The problem with services like Chatgpt is that if you are ignorant e pugh on a topic and the LLMs decides to hallucinate on that particular command or setup you are up to a painful evening 😂

[neilmarshall]

I would add learning note taking as a necessity. Learn Obsidian or something similar to take notes on everything as you learn it. Even if half the 'notes' are links to YT or sites.

[ryudswift]

First vid I watched besides the Linux sysadmin stuff for the last month and a complete n00b... But thanx for the insight.

My questions are becoming more complex and leading me back really deep and at times a bit tiring.

I was wondering what would be the best route from n00b to basic sysAdmin setup, let's say vps running a webhosting service for personal use.

Got it up, setup some sort of authentication and it works for my automation setup but I'm asking myself those questions and going back to terminal learning about the apps I can use as such for better info gathering at first.

It's a journey, it's still new to me even though I understand the cli a bit and am not scared to use it. Inevitably, I think I'll probably move my time more to the terminal than in apps, I enjoy the tweaking and figuring shyt out.

Anyway, that's my 2c and again, great insight, thanx.

[E_Proxy]

I'd like to self-host stuff cause I don't like using "someone else's pc" giving out all of my data and I especially don't like paying for services that can be way better delivered by domestic servers. The problem is: if you're too dumb to understand this really complicated stuff, you won't get it. And I am the living example of that. I somehow managed to have a proxmox server up and running (just jellyfin, somehow, getting data from a NFS in my Synology NAS) without understanding anything of what I did. And an Xpenology with DSM for my parents with Immich inside. But I won't be capable of doing anything I'd like (accessing them from outside the network, making backups, having anonimity, understanding permissions, privileges, folders and users management, ...). Cause you just don't get IQ points by wishing for it, unfortunately

[v-Kaleb]

That’s literaly the best way to use gpt. Not believing 100%, but when you actually understand ‘x’ topic, you’ll know when it teaches you wrong. Then you’ll have learned

[jothain]

Many YT's make tutorials wrong. I've seen plenty of makers showing in vid "how to make server X" just showing commands and not explaining precisely what they're doing with commands. They're giving implication to new users that these are things how everyone does it. Plus I've seen multiple ie. half assed tutorials about installing like mentioned Nextcloud where someone just runs commands to deploy Nextcloud and then vid ends like "certificates and domain are so extensive things that I won't cover these in this video". Like why the hell someone then just creates half of stuff needed and calls it a day and slaps title "How to run Nextcloud on your home server". Like what the f...😂

[snn]

Docker isn't the preferred way to install nextcloud..its one of the automated ways of installing...

[ericvenneker]

I agree that you should now what you are running. But the documentation is lacking and makes it difficult to do that.

Your next cloud example is showing this by starting with the simplest way to deploy an environment. They should have added a warning that this does not include persistent storage. And maybe don't include that command at all if it doesn't result in a good user experience.

[neilmarshall]

Great rant. I learned enough to realise I have zero need for self hosting. Dont need the 30+ apps in docker / kubernetes running all the time. Still lots of PoE and switch things to learn. And bashing at bash....

[mostrealtutu]

Do this Before Self-Hosting: Not click on yt clickbait titles anymore. when does it stop.

[paspa]

Just explain it instead of wasting time pointing fingers