Pragmatic Self-Hosting
Pragmatic Self-Hosting
How to get started with self-hosting for absolute beginners
About the Book
Self-hosting is the art and craft of hosting applications on your servers. Be it on your local hardware or in the cloud. This books helps you get an overview of what is possible and which way to self-host suits you.
The books will give you an opinionated way to start your self-hosting journey. We will start with hardware, and which OS (Operating System) you should install. Basic network knowledge to reach your server and expose services to the world. Additionally, we will go into file systems, some basic security, how to find logs, how to install applications, and more.
This is not a step-by-step guide that will throw you into tutorial hell. Rather this book will give you the knowledge to find solutions for yourself in the future for your own self-hosting journey.
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
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Pragmatic Self-Hosting Manifesto
- Keep it simple
- Design your system for time off and leisure time
- Do not use too many machines
- You do not need clusters
- You do not need Kubernetes at home
- Have dedicated hardware for certain tasks
- Automate, but do not automate everything
- Do not judge tools based on their programming language
- Databases are not bad
- Backups
- Basic security
- Update your systems/software
- High uptime is a bad metric
- Downscaling is okay
- Do not judge others for their setup
- Do not listen to these rules when the goal is learning
- Choosing Hardware and Operating System
- Choosing NAS OS or Linux Distribution
- Network basics for self hosters
- Useful Linux commands (Focus on Ubuntu)
- Storage basics and File System
- Learn about memory/RAM in Linux
- How to check logs
- Basic network debugging
- Recover a broken system with live boot
- Backups
- Installing and running applications
- More advanced network - Accessing services from outside you network (The internet)
- Basic Security
- Where to go from here?
- Other resources to check out
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