From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start
From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start
I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.
- What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
- What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
- What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
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Benefits:
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Cheap storage that I can use both locally and as a private cloud. Very convenient for
piracystoring all my legally obtained files. -
Network wide adblocking. Massive for mobile games/apps.
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Pivate VPN. Really useful for using public networks and bypassing network restrictions.
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Gives me an excuse to buy really cool, old server and networking hardware.
As for things I wish I knew... Don't use windows for servers. Just don't.
SMB sucks, try NFS.
Use docker, managing 5 or 10 different apps without containers is a nightmare.
Bold of you to assume I'm a computer scientist or engineer or that I have a degree lmao. I just hate ads, subscriptions and network restrictions, so I learned how to avoid those things. As for resources to get started... Look up TrueNAS scale. It basically does all of the work for you.
How's the network wide ad blocking work, that would solve a big issue with my kids.
You either set the DNS settings per device to the system running PiHole / AdGuard Home, or if your router allows, set the DNS there. It's ideal to set it on the router.
Any time a device makes a DNS request to a domain, it's checked against the list. If found, it's stopped. If not found, it gets sent upstream to your choice of a public DNS configured during setup. I use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1).
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