Hey selfhosters.

I have a question about starting self hosting; I have run Jellyfin on an old MacBook for a bit and wanna dip more than a toe into the self host pool. Are there any guides out there you’d recommend for actual, complete beginners who knows nothing but wants to learn?

I’ve searched a lot but it feels like they’re pretty advanced for beginners. Is it just a really sharp learning curve to this, or am I not finding the good ones?

Edit: To clarify what level I’m really, truly at: I run the Jellyfin server on regular macOS and have an external 5TB drive connected via usb. That’s it.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    For an absolute beginner I would recommend Linux tutorials first so you can navigate the Linux cli.
    After that watch some docker tutorials as a significant chunk of self hosting is done with docker or a kube variant but you won’t need to lean about kube yet.

    LearnLinuxTV on YouTube has some great playlists for that.

    • Yesbutnotreally@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Linux clearly is the way to go, I’ve seen. I’ve been in the Mac environment for the past 20 years so I think the very first thing to do is to install Linux on a VM. Question to that; I’ve seen Debian being mentioned a lot, is this “the best” to start with?

      • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Debian is good to start with as one of its key tenants is stability. Which is what you want in any environment.

        A lot of popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint are based on it.

        • Yesbutnotreally@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Yeah, okay, that makes a lot of sense. I asked in another comment as well. I read about “headless” servers, which from what I understood means no GUI. Would you recommend that, or use a GUI first and then move to headless when the actual server is in place?