If you can’t configure Docker, reverse proxies, and Yaml files, you shouldn’t be self-hosting

Yes, absolutely.

Configure Docker

if you cannot run docker compose up or understand the basics of what it’s doing, you should not be self hosting. Yes, Docker can be difficult to troubleshoot but you need to understand where your data is being stored and generally self hosting projects using Docker are easy to set up.

reverse proxies

Implying exposing your server to the Internet. Yes. 100%. If you do not know what you’re doing, you should not. This is dangerous to your machine and to your data.

Yaml files

This is a plain text file. You can open it with Notepad or your operating system’s equivalent. Editing a text file to enter some default parameters is a low bar and if you can’t edit a text file, you’re going to get caught up in some other part of self hosting

I just pulled an old Android phone out of the closet and messing around with Termux and I’m seriously impressed. I had a file server up in my network within a minute. All without root too!