I assume most users here have some sort of tech/IT/software background. However, I’ve seen some comments of people who might not have that background (no problem with that) and I wonder if you are self-hosting anything, how did you decide that you would like to self-host?

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I work warehousing; no IT background, I just like to tinker with whatever. Have since I started breathing.

    I was a fairly casual pirate, grabbing movies/shows I couldn’t find elsewhere (or just couldn’t afford). Got into Plex/Emby for my first real exploration into self-hosting (if you don’t count SRCDS and/or Minecraft Server at like 13yo); and expanded my knowledge from there. Reverse Proxys, the ‘arrs’, DNS, Docker, VPNs, etc.

    Now a days, I’ve got 20+ services that I mostly access via a VPN I host, and I’m always interested in messing with new things :)