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From reddit selfhosted: What do you wish you knew from the start(www.reddit.com)

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I saw this post today on Reddit and was curious to see if views are similar here as they are there.

  1. What are the best benefits of self-hosting?
  2. What do you wish you would have known as a beginner starting out?
  3. What resources do you know of to help a non-computer-scientist/engineer get started in self-hosting?
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Landless2029@lemmy.world
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Can you clarify on how NixOS is great for selfhosting? I was going to do mint.

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jimmy90@lemmy.world
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you configure your whole server in one file (including docker/podman services), installation and configurations is taken care of by the package manager, you pretty much only need to know one file to admin your system

and no extra stuff is installed only what you specify so you have a minimal resource usage.

i think this is awesome

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Kaufman5000@feddit.org
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As far as operating systems goes, i would recommend Debian or Ubuntu. These are very wiedly used and there are many resources. And if you are brave, you can start without a Desktop.

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