Adventures in Self-Hosting Part 0 - Introduction
Self-hosting has often been regarded a purely the plaything of the sysadmin or the exceptionally techy, but with the ever increasing cost of cloud storage, concerns over data privacy, and the sheer amount of data one person can generate, more and more people have been attempting to take control of both their data and their money. Self-hosting itself has become less expensive, with commodity hardware now providing cheaper and simpler access to the world of running your own cloud. No longer does one have to be able to meticulously configure enterprise grade hardware, or spend money on the large amount of electricity such hardware requires. I for one have fell into this rabbit hole of self-hosting, developing a setup that first started out as a local media server & SMB share for files, but has since evolved into:
- SMB storage
- Media Server
- Request management
- Photo storage
- Cloud drive
- DNS
- SIEM
- Remote access
- And more…
Adventures in Self-Hosting - The Series
So here’s the plan, this series will cover most of the things I’ve learned/brute forced on my journey to a vaguely competent self-hosting setup. This series will cover:
- Hardware
- Operating systems
- Containerisation
- Media hosting
- Photo management
- Remote access
- System monitoring
- SIEM/XDR
- DNS
- Off-Site backups
- Possibly more…
Warning
After reading, you too may find yourself thinking “hmm, having a Plex server might be cool” it is near impossible to stick to that in the long run, but is that a bad thing? You can decide once you jump into the rabbit hole. Me personally… I regret nothing!!