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this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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What's your level of technical knowledge? If you already know the terms "VPS" and "Docker", then yeah, it's fairly easy IMO (I have some notes here). If you have no idea what you just read, it could be a little tough. There are some rough edges to work out still, but if you join us on Matrix people are fairly helpful.
I honestly don't know those terms but I'm very tech savvy. I'm running my own home cloud. I play around with Linux. And I just love tinkering until I fully understand how something works. I don't see the learning curve to be a problem. I'd enjoy the experience which is why I'm seeking it out really. I think I'd really enjoy playing that role in this community.
If you have a spare machine lying around, install proxmox.
It's a great way to learn VMs and networking.
Then you can create a VM, snapshot it (as a restore point), mess around with docker or podman, break stuff, then restore the VM to try again.
All this runs on your local network, so when it comes to setting up a Lemmy instance, you are going to want access to it from the internet. Things like Cloudflare and Tailscale can make this very easy.
It's a wonderful rabbit hole of learning!
I would recommend /r/homelab or /r/selfhosted but I think those communities are still finding a home on the fediverse
+1 to Proxmox, it has been my lifeline when it comes to playing around with self hosting stuff! I'd heard about hypervisors before but was still under the impression that virtualizing had a ton of overhead (there is still some overhead, but not by much).
Additionally, Proxmox Backup Server is a really nice pairing as well!