I’ve been a Software Engineering Student for 2 years now. I understand networks and whatnot at a theoretical level to some degree.

I’ve developed applications and hosted them through docker on Google Cloud for school projects.

I’ve tinkered with my router, port forwarded video game servers and hosted Discord bots for a few years (familiar with Websockets and IP/NAT/WAN and whatnot)

Yet I’ve been trying to improve my setup now that my old laptop has become my homelab and everything I try to do is so daunting.

Reverse proxy, VPN, Cloudfare bullshit, and so many more things get thrown around so much in this sub and other resources, yet I can barely find info on HOW to set up this things. Most blogs and articles I find are about what they are which I already know. And the few that actually explain how to set it up are just throwing so many more concepts at me that I can’t keep up.

Why is self-hosting so daunting? I feel like even though I understand how many of these things work I can’t get anything actually running!

  • weeklygamingrecap@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I’m confused why you say you can’t find information on how to set up home lab projects. There are hours and hours of content on YouTube that also do sometimes point back to blogs and GitHub repos.

    I will say that the problem I have is once they show you how to setup say a reverse proxy there’s generally not follow through in either deep diving into all the additional settings or more advanced setups. If there is the other problem you’ll run into is that it can become outdated quickly so it’s a double edged sword. But setup and getting things running in a home lab there shouldn’t be any shortage of info to consune.