• ZMonster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Self hosting, at least for lemmy, is absolute trash. I have been told a few times when asking questions that, “it is expected that you are thoroughly experienced with Linux” to be able to follow the mediocre guides. And they are trash if you are a newbie.

    So people like me, who would love to use Lemmy for non Linux things, am posting almost entirely about Linux problems.

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      1 year ago

      I wouldn’t expect running a publicly accessible server on the internet to be easy or a great idea for someone not familiar with the OS they’re using. Great way to learn, though.

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        Yeah I’ve got a proxmox cluster and I’ve been using Linux for decades but I wouldn’t dare host something that a LOT of users are going to access. I don’t know nearly enough about netsec and I can guarantee my vlan practices probably aren’t perfect, etc.

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          I have a solution for you. Just don’t have your Internet facing things on the same /24 as your home stuff. Why vlan if you can just separate them by network and switch.

          Or: just do it anyways. I learned most shit after everything broke. Not before.

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      1 year ago

      If you never used windows before and were trying to do something complicated like self hosting on it, you would be having nothing but issues…

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        1 year ago

        Not really. There’s tutorials for everything and most of them still work 20 years later.
        vs you installed ubuntu 20 and now youre trying to follow a 16 tutorial.