I think this thread clearly shows why there would greatly benefit in a targeted self-hosting guide for those without technical chops aside outside of non-technical Linux usage. I see a lot of different technologies mentioned around self hosting. Below is a list of various things people have mentioned (no order)
- Proxmox
- Umbrel
- TrueNAS
- Synology NAS
- RAID storage
- Hypervisors
- Rustdesk
- TeamViewer
- Samba
- Nextcloud
- Cockpit
- Docker
- Podman
- Portainer
- Using Cloudfare
- DDNS
- Tailscale
- Wireguard
- Various Linux Distros, but Ansible and NixOS notable
- Lots of people saying this is the right first place with different recs
If I was just starting out, my head would be spinning on how to even evaluate any of this. This all is assuming everyone has a pretty solid foundation of networking, which is definitely not something most people casually know. Such a guide isn’t going to be done in a forum post, as there is plenty of ground to cover. This would need to be a multi-page article or even a course.