Self-Hosting: Three Easy Pieces

If you're following from the workshop, here are the slides!

https://nushackers.github.io/hackertools_materials/self-hostingnushackers.github.io

Prologue: What is Self Hosting?

The act of providing or serving digital content or an online service typically delivered by a business.

The service or content is generally served locally from your own hardware. Often "self-hosters" use older Enterprise-grade hardware from their home internet connections however they also use other hosting providers hardware. This is still considered self-hosting.

While people who get into self-hosting often use their own hardware, using hosting providers help abstract away the hardware difficulties while getting you 90% of the way there.

What are some things we can create by self-hosting?

• Hosting a website is one of the lowest barrier of entry.

• Media-streaming services such as Jellyfin

• Game-servers such as Minecraft, Rust and Factorio are common

Why not just pay/get someone to do these for you?

• It’s great for learning!

• Self-custody of your own data (this is limited with VPS)

• Run servers/services that aren’t available as a SaaS

• Get fine-grained control over your service (great for debugging personal projects)

You can learn more here:

r/SelfHosted Wikiwiki.r-selfhosted.com