So, couple years ago i started to learn about tech, programming and self hosting services thanks to redditors ( not reddit the evil corp ), and found lots of communities where they pointed me to good resources but then ended up allocating more time to learning programming to switch career into that field and finally got it.
As a passion and private needs I had set up couple of small servers for testing, but never ended up being able to actually expose them publicly in a secure way
I found some “beginner level” tutorials, but to be honest, it still was quite hard to understand.
Where can I found even lower level resources or any chat group or discord group for literal illeterates like me??
I know i can do my own research as I did for programming, but that was for landing an actual job, this is mostly for personal need, so i really cannot allocate much time into studying so much while I also have family duties and improving my coding skill for the current job
Thanks a lot
Maybe an OS like Unraid might help. Been using it for a few years now to spin up dev servers and run some containers for personal use and have no complaints. It’s not free but it’s well worth the price. What’s nice about it is how much support you can find and that it’s pretty straightforward to get it up and running.
I may have express myself poorly, sorry, was in a rush.
I got the services running fine, am still learning and testing few things but the things I need or build are available and running on local.
My issue is about publishing them online, like linking them to a domain name I bough, and pointing that to my static home IP address, and the routing for each of them
like “cloud.myhomelab.net” to point to my home IP, and then reverse proxy that to the nextcloud instance at 192.168.1.127:8080 that is a proxmox container running docker containers
I followed some of dbtech’s tutorials, and tried via Porkbun and cloudflare tunnels, and just after posting this I saw that it finally propagated (after a looot of days) but can only reach one of the services I set up.
Another way i kinda heard about was not using cloudflare tunnels and redirecting the traffic to my static IP to an nginx container that then redirects the traffic inside my home lan but I really don’t know how to handle security with that, and also my ISP is blocking traffic on port 80 and 443 ( “it’s for our router firmware’s updates…” that were like 4 years ago last update )
All the idea of how to connect my local machines to the outside world and different method and secure proofing is soo difficult to understand for my, i really can’t wrap my head around on what does what
thanks a lot for the easy recap !!
I remember hearing and checking out Nginx Proxy Manager while following tutorials some mention that, but i found the tutorials kinda awkward at the time and didn’t fully understand what it was for ( it was kinda of a long time ago tbh ).
As for the ISP, it is Fastweb, in italy, and is kinda a bummer, they rely on Telecom’s FTTC network ( meaning the cable and cabinets infrastructure ) for their service, so i can either choose Fastweb ( kinda good pricing since I only have internet and no home phone ) or Telecom’s pricing are like and armed robbery, where the fixed price you sign is already higher, and is full of hidden paid service that pop up every now and again and it gets you mad on how many times you have to call their customer service to either remove those service or claim refund.
Other ISPs in my area don’t have fiber connection and top to like 5 Mbs downloads on a good day.
Anyway, thanks a lot!
This may help: https://caddy.community/t/using-caddy-as-a-reverse-proxy-in-a-home-network/9427
I am just starting the same journey and have also experienced the lack of good guides for noobs. Most guides are on integrating more complex setups.
right?? so it’s not just my own impression…
I know I like tech stuff and I know i can get passionate and raise my skills on my own, but I could not find any good “beginner level” resource that didn’t step from a simple nice to get drawing of how things should be, to a complex mixmatch of services and settings that leaves me in doubt of what do i have to do in my instance…
Thanks for the link, i’ll check it out as i get back home…
Since you are on the same journey and know about any group chat or communities that are noob approachable, i’m all ears
I found this tutorial to be quite helpful and have used the reverse proxy stuff from here to also set up reverse proxy for immich and photoprism.
https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-jellyfin-media-server-on-linux-mint/
Took me a few tries though, especially getting the valid config AND SSL certificate in the correct order…
Other people have said lots of useful things so I wanna just add on: nginx proxy manager is really useful for this. It’s a webui that automates reverse proxying with Nginx (so that you can host multiple pages on the same machine/port) and also centralizes managing SSL certificates, including automatically obtaining them from Let’s Encrypt.
I tried it couple of times when i was less knowledgeable, and failed… i do need to give it another try, but I really struggle focusing on this steps…
It almost makes javascript seem quick and easy hahahah
Yeah setting up a reverse proxy can be confusing, I still struggle with it sometimes. You can get away without it, but when you have your basic setup working then it’s great to have.
well…i failed yet again… xD
i was up until 2 am trying tweaking porkbun, cloudflare and nginx proxy manager…
Everything says it’s up and running, but i keep getting
" Web server is down Error code 521 "
or
“Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.”
Now am also late for work and only slept like 5 hours…
and what bugs me the most is that this is just the "testing " setup… when i’ll finally get it working i’d have to do it all over again for the main services and private stuff :(