Learning to set up a server help (lemmy.world)

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I'm looking to start my own server, and was going to dive into YouTube tutorials. Do you have any recommendations to offer?

Service wise, I wanted to start with a pi hole, and maybe a music server or something to store pictures from my phone. Maybe host my own ss14 server too!

Hardware wise, i was going to start with a raspberry pi (of some sort?)

Any tips, references, or suggestions are greatly appreciated ❤️

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[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I agree with your first half, but regarding the second half I'd argue that docker isn't a necessity, especially early on. You can host multiple things fine without docker.

Docker is nice and all (or so I've been told), but I'd put that a lot further down on the list of things to learn. Understanding the basic services individually is more important than containerization.

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