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Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it's better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that by hosting an instance via Cloud or VPS you are offloading the data / information to a 3rd party.

Are people actually running their own actual self-hosted servers from home? Do you have any recommended guides on running a Lemmy Instance?

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[–] ProtecyaTec@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Do you have any recommended resources for getting started? I do have a secondary PC...

[–] morras@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 3 years ago

First, you need a use-case. It's worthless to have a server just for the sake of it.

For example, you may want to replace google photos by a local save of your photos.

Or you may want to share your movies accross the home network. Or be able to access important documents from any device at home, without hosting them on any kind of cloud storage

Or run a bunch of automation at home.

TL;DR choose a service you use and would like to replace by something more private.

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 7 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Get a copy of vmware (esxi) or proxmox and load it on that secondary pc.

[–] tinysalamander@lemmy.world 11 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Proxmox absolutely changed the game for me learning Linux. Spinning up LXC containers in seconds to test out applications or simply to learn different Linux OSs without worrying about the install process each time has probably saved me days of my life at this point. Plus being able to use and learn ZFS natively is really cool.

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 7 points 3 years ago

Ive been using esxi (free copy) for years. Same situation. Being able to spin up virtual machines or take a snapshot before a major change has been priceless. I started off with smaller nuc computers and have upgraded to full fledged desktops.

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 3 points 3 years ago

The simple way is to Google 'yunohost' and install that on your spare machine, then just play around with what that offers.

If you want, you could also dive deeper by installing Linux (e.g.Ubuntu), then installing Docker, then spin up Portainer as your first container.