anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running? (feddit.nl)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by helenslunch@feddit.nl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've tried to figure some of this stuff out but I really don't know what I'm doing. Most documentation is written with a vocabulary I don't understand. Tutorials assume a high-level understanding of coding, software, CLI and a bunch of other stuff.

So far I've got an old gaming PC with a R7 2700x + 2060 Super and I think maybe it's overkill. I've got TrueNAS running on it but that's about as far as I got...

Thinking maybe we can have an open Jitsi meeting and just anyone who needs help can get it (myself included 🙂)?

Would anyone be interested in something like that?

E: some people have imagined up some things that I said so let me be clear about what I did not say:

At no time did I insist, beg, or demand that anyone help me.

I did NOT ask anyone to help with a specific issue, nor should I be required to.

I asked if anyone would be willing to help myself and possibly others to get some services running, and I asked to do it in a videoconference setting where we can have a discussion and where you can see what I'm doing as I'm doing it, out of respect for both of our time.

If you are not interested, you do not need to come in here and announce it, and you sure as shit do not need to speak for anyone else on whether they will want to. Just keep scrolling.

E2: special thanks to those who actually reached out and offered to help!

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[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm happy to help if anyone needs help with docker and/or Linux stuff. (I'll probably try to convert you to Linux, the os to rule them all. You've been warned) Wont necessarily be everything or set it all up for you, but enough knowledge to get you started and able to learn more yourself is doable

For op, that setup is likely overkill, most stuff will use more ram than cpu and very few self hosted apps will use the GPU at all (Plex and jellyfin are the only ones that come to mind). Only hurt to it being overkill is a higher power usage than a smaller setup, but if you already have it running full time then it's unlikely to make a different

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago

I'm already running Linux/TrueNAS so that's okay.

Wont necessarily be everything or set it all up for you, but enough knowledge to get you started and able to learn more yourself is doable

Yeah I'm hoping if someone can walk me through a couple of services I can learn from that and just apply it to other products.

For op, that setup is likely overkill

Hoping to host some public servers/websites that hopefully others can use. Also I'm not sure I could sell this thing and buy something else and do better for the same money. I should monitor the consumption though...

[-] finestnothing@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

In terms of electricity consumption, it's still not going to be huge, just was noted in case you wanted to go smaller. You can almost certainly go smaller, but at the same time if you already have the hardware it's not going to be useful to sell it second hand and buy new hardware that has less performance.

Hosting static websites at home is fine if you really want to, but for anything dynamic and/or that will have a lot of users, get a vps (basically a server that you pay for storage and compute resources on and can use remotely how you like, including hosting stuff like mastodon and lemmy instances)

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago

I have zero interest in having someone else host my services but thank you.

[-] AdminWorker@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

If you are successful in this, perhaps a twitch channel walking through the basics running on a regular ish basis

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago

What do you mean? Like hosting a Livestream and asking the viewers for help?

[-] AdminWorker@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I was imagining a "I just wiped my hard drive and flashed the current version of Debian. Let's get basic services up."

I wish there was a "hey watch me code/self host" channel that helped noobs see how to approach the problem of starting. Usually their is a "hey watch me code" YouTube that is old enough to have a critical breaking point (some library updated) so a noob finds it impossible.

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[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

What services are you looking at? TrueNAS can be good for some situations but isn't always the best it terms of flexablity. It really depends on what you are trying to host

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago

I mean I want to run a lot of things. Some of which include

Home Assistant
Jellyfin
Own tracks
PeerTube
Frigate
BitWarden
Jitsi
Possibly hosting my own website(s).

Etc. None of these are things I explicitly need, I just want to mess around and learn.

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[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

You don't need to use the cert, but I've got a basic setup here that you could get running in docker, then play around with understanding it / adding to it:

https://homelab.express

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago

Sorry can you explain what I'm looking at here.

[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

A quick docker setup to get you going with a reverse proxy (Traefik) and insights/management (Portainer).

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 0 points 8 months ago

I don't know what any of those things are :( is there a tutorial?

[-] angelsomething@lemmy.one -1 points 8 months ago

No joke, I learned a ton this summer just by asking AI how to do stuff.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl -2 points 8 months ago

I will give that a shot. Any particular one?

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