I have been thinking about self-hosting lately. I’ve built and maintained my own simple websites, I’ve played a bit with raspberryPi and other boards, so I have some general idea. But I have just found out that I can not use my shared hosting to host a fediverse instance (or is there anything out there? My provider offers a Softaculous install of Hubzilla but it doesn’t work). So I’ve looked into VPS, and into self-hosting at home. I’m concerned that the learning curve for managing one’s own server might be rather more than I want to have to deal with right now. Is there a good tutorial or overview for half-dummies like me, so I can better gauge if this stuff is for me?
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it takes time to be good at it, but maybe you could start with Yunohost and slowly learn the ropes.
a book - https://ziurkes.group.lt/book/4399/s/unix-and-linux-system-administration-handbook (use it as a reference, not as a novel - it is more than 1k pages)
Well 1k pages does sound a little off putting (not because inherently bad, just because my real life only permits so much time for tech shenanigans). Yunohost I have looked into and that might be an option I could get along with. It seems to be a bit like the Softaculous installer that comes with my shared hosting, I think.
Edit: didn’t even say thank you for the book link - btw is that a bookwyrm instance?
yep, bookwyrm ;)
Soo, do you happen to have a list of bookwyrm instances one could check out? Asking for a bookwyrm
Since they are federated - choose to your liking ;) https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/
Honestly, if it’s just for you and family or friends, just take the Yunohost route! Super easy to do everything :)
