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What got you into selfhosting and what was the first thing that you hosted? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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For me, it was PhotoPrism. I used to be an idiot, and used Google Photos as my gallery. I knew that it was terrible for privacy but was too lazy to do anything about it. When Google limited storage for free accounts, I started looking for alternatives. Tried out a lot of stuff, but ended up settling on PhotoPrism.

It does most things that I need, except for multiple user support (it's there in the sponsored version now). It made me learn a bit about Docker. Eventually, I learned how to access it from outside of my home network over Cloudflare tunnel. I'm happy that I can send pics/albums to folks without sharing it to any third party. It's as easy as sending a link.

Now I have around a dozen containers on a local mini pc, and a couple on a VPS. I still route most things through Cloudflare tunnels (lower latency), only the high bandwidth stuff like Jellyfin are routed through a wireguard tunnel through the VPS.

Anyway, how did you get into selfhosting? (The question is mostly meant for non-professionals. But if you're a professional with something interesting to share, you're welcome as well.)

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[–] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Probably Apache? I've been running web servers since the early 2000's.

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

Yeah. Probably Apache. Can't remember what that I was doing, but it almost certainly ran on Apache, and I almost certainly spent 90% of my energy configuring Apache.

[–] tehcpengsiudai@lemmy.world 0 points 3 years ago (1 children)

XAMPP? I started with that in Secondary School (equivalent to high school)

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 1 points 3 years ago

I was probably running some weird little Python web CGI dice roller or some such. I spent a lot of time teaching myself the HTTP stack the unnecessarily hard way, lol.