kostel_thecreed@lemmy.catoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•What are some text resources you'd recommend to brush up on basics?English
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1 year agohttps://esc.sh/projects/devops-from-scratch/ is a good resource. Most questions you have (that are more specific) are easily searchable on the internet.
ways to safely connect to home servers over the internet while away
A couple methods include :
- Installing Wireguard on the host machine
- Reverse-proxying with a VPS
- Cloudflare zero-trust tunnel
when it may be better to spin up services on a VPS instead
Most services you probably won’t need a VPS to do, but off the top of my head a couple services which would be better hosted (not saying self-hosting them on your own hardware is bad) would be services which proxy a service. Example SearxNG, Invidious, Proxitok, etc. This is so that traffic can be shared among multiple users, and not linked back to your home IP.
wger. A workout tracking app that is open source. It tracks workouts, rest times, bodyweight, nutrition, and a lot more. Also has the advantage of being able to selfhost the software incase you don’t trust them with your data (which I do trust, they’re nice devs)