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Cake day: Jul 29, 2023

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What skills are needed to self host without too many headaches?
For this new year, I’d like to learn the skills necessary to self host. Specifically, I would like to eventually be able to self host Nextcloud, Jellyfin and possibly my email server too. I've have a basic level understanding of Python and Kotlin. Now I'm in the process of learning Linux through a virtual machine because I know Linux is better suited for self hosting. Should I stick with Python? Or is JavaScript (or maybe Ruby) better suited for that purpose? I'm more than happy to learn a new language, but I'm unsure on which is better suited. And if you could start again in your self hosting journey, what would you do differently? :) EDIT: I wasn't expecting all these wonderful replies. You're all very kind people to share so much with me :) The consensus seems to be that hosting your own email server might be a lot, so I might leave that as future project. But for Nextcloud and Jellyfin I saw a lot of great tips! I forgot to mention that ideally I would like to have Nextcloud available for multiple users (ie. family memebers) so indeed learning some basic networking/firewalling seems the bare minimum. I also **promise** that I will carefully read the manuals!
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