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!
For me and I’m not sure if it’s been mentioned here already or not, but I don’t really have any programming skills or super geek out on this stuff. But I like the tools, right? So teaching myself some of this is hard, especially when there is an attitude with most of this stuff that you should know everything about docker containers and weird networking rules, etc. Sometimes people are helpful, more often than not, it’s a super short answer you have to interpret and decipher to figure out.