After 1.5 years of learning selfhosting, this is where I'm at
After 1.5 years of learning selfhosting, this is where I'm at
Mid 2022, a friend of mine helped me set up a selfhosted Vaultwarden instance. Since then, my "infrastructure" has not stopped growing, and I've been learning each and every day about how services work, how they communicate and how I can move data from one place to another. It's truly incredible, and my favorite hobby by a long shot.
Here's a map of what I've built so far. Right now, I'm mostly done, but surely time will bring more ideas. I've also left out a bunch of "technically revelant" connections like DNS resolution through the AdGuard instance, firewalls and CrowdSec on the main VPS.
Looking at the setups that others have posted, I don't think this is super incredible - but if you have input or questions about the setup, I'll do my best to explain it all. None of my peers really understand what it takes to construct something like this, so I am in need of people who understand my excitement and proudness :)
Edit: the image was compressed a bit too much, so here's the full res image for the curious: https://files.catbox.moe/iyq5vx.png And a dark version for the night owls: https://files.catbox.moe/hy713z.png
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Sorry if someone already asked this, but do you have any tutorials or guides that you used and found helpful for starting out? I have some small experience with nginx and such, but I would definitely need to follow along with something that tells me what to do and what each part does in a infrastructure like you have haha
That's a tough one. I've pieced this all together from countless guides for each app itself, combined with tons of reddit reading.
There are some sources that I can list though:
- https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ is great to find apps you might want to host
- https://docs.ibracorp.io/ mainly aims at Unraid hosting, but the information can oftentimes be transferred
- https://how2host.it has some start-to-finish guides that explain every setup step
- https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide is an incredibly long list of apps and ressources you can use as a launchpad. Note the "Tutorials & Ressources" Section for further links
Had to look up what a few of these were myself, check the sidebar resources: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I've been dabbling in self hosting recently and found that chatgpt can help you setup a lot if you don't get annoyed and keep fixing your prompts. It even writes out your docker compose files for you and you can ask it questions on what things mean and what's linked to each other. If you do try it out though, avoid giving personal info like passwords in the chat.