I’m interested in this a bit. I worry about setting up some sort of server that is going to be facing the Internet though. Is there a good guide or starting place for something like this? If I just want an easy or approachable solution with some limitations as a trade off for easy and safe setup? I feel like I’ve heard of Plex servers before, but no clue if that’s the best way to go or not. Where would one start to learn more?
I’m a software engineer and I had to quit self-hosting due to simply not having the time nor the ability to research and keep up with security, products that were going away, new ones, etc. I have a job, run a farm, and do housework and other work. It’s just not in the cards for me.
I work in tech and I promise it’s not. I worked my way through support and engineering and then did development. I promise people aren’t as bad at tech as they appear to you. The only thing stopping people is laziness.
It’s not hard and there’s plenty of people, like myself, that are willing to help you. Let’s work together.
I’m interested in this a bit. I worry about setting up some sort of server that is going to be facing the Internet though. Is there a good guide or starting place for something like this? If I just want an easy or approachable solution with some limitations as a trade off for easy and safe setup? I feel like I’ve heard of Plex servers before, but no clue if that’s the best way to go or not. Where would one start to learn more?
It may not be “hard”, yet it’s just not practically possible for most people.
It is practically possible. You just have to put in a small amount of effort. Anyone saying it’s too hard has given up without trying.
I work in IT. Trust me, it’s well beyond a lot of people.
I’m a software engineer and I had to quit self-hosting due to simply not having the time nor the ability to research and keep up with security, products that were going away, new ones, etc. I have a job, run a farm, and do housework and other work. It’s just not in the cards for me.
I work in tech and I promise it’s not. I worked my way through support and engineering and then did development. I promise people aren’t as bad at tech as they appear to you. The only thing stopping people is laziness.
It’s not “too hard”, it just completely unreasonable to expect people in general to self host as a way to “fight against tech billionaires”.
I can assure you that most people would find the amount of effort required to learn, implement, and maintain self hosted services to be unpractical.
It’s not impractical. It requires effort and Americans are too busy watching Netflix and spanking the monkey to do much of anything.