Futo (Louis Rossman) at it again with great content, this time a Guide to a Self Managed life. This 14hrs long guide comes in two video parts, aswell as a written guide for those who prefer. Both video and written quide comes with complete chapters and timestamps. This should be a great starting point for those who have the time and want to start learning from the very beginning.
Video Link to Part 1: Youtube - Invidious
Video Link to Part 2: Youtube - Invidious
Happy selfhosting in 2025 everyone ✨
@Sunny@slrpnk.net There is absolutely no way any starter will see that page and not be intimidated. I am a well seasoned selfhoster and even I saw that and went “Wow that’s a lotta words and images on a single page.”
Even arch wiki has sensible ToC with pages divided into what the current topic is.
I’ve been self hosting for years, and am familiar with many of the topics here, but it’s still an interesting read for things like talking about breaking out the three part router yourself. I’m really glad he out this together because it means I can see what others do in detail, even if it’s NOT the 100% recommended way (OPNSense, wireguard, etc)
On one hand, I agree that having a small overview with links to make this non monolithic would go a long way to making this functional and less scary.
On the other hand some information is scattered fairly heavily. Take the switch discussion. He mentions a 15 dollar switch, and then the upper end 1000$ switch early on, to emphasize the range. It’s not until a much much later section he talks about the more practical 20$ switch or 400$ switch he’d use here. So it being monolithic aides Ctrl+F to find this segmented info.
He also mentions the capability/value of having a manged switch (the latter switch is managed) specifically with VLAN, and yet doesn’t to my mind ever state why/when I would do something with the switch management to that end. As far as I can tell, many newer switches will pass VLAN tags (even when unmanaged) from the router, which will enable you to offer a WAP with split SSIDs so you could use something like TP-link 8 port 2.5gb unmanged switch (which at 100$ seems like a meaningful bridge between the 15$ 4 port 1 GB switch, and $400 16 port 2.5gb, 8 port poe switch). He talks about PoE & speed merits but IMHO doesn’t really cover the significance of a managed switch other than saying it had features for vlan (even though the cheapie would pass VLAN tags)
What does the managed switch offer me for VLAN? Specifically just the capability to isolate certain ports so specific hard lines are mapped to a certain vlan?
That’s a possibility indeed, but at least he documented all the steps, it’s great to see that because it looks like a lot of work. But I agree at the first that big long page for sure can be intimidated (CTRL+F is your best friend here).
I think solely focusing on usability for “power-users” single page makes sense. Nevertheless, I think web design seems to prefer many pages though I don’t know if that’s driven by user-friendliness or driving up the “click-through” rate.
actually yeah, fair point. I think perhaps the videoes are probably what they aim to be more beginner friendly rather than the written one.
Yeah, beginners are probably better served with Yunohost.
It’s so easy to self host! Just watch 14 hours of a talking head!
Fan of FUTO, but can’t recommend this to most people thinking of starting. Needs to be less “scary”.
If only there was a way to… freeze media playback so that one can… oh shoot, we need a word for that next step, too, maybe… ‘resume’ could work? Yeah, resume it at a later date.
Such a shame that this idea has never been possible.
Agree! It can only act as a reference. I like the approach taken by distributions like Yunohost where all the details are abstracted away.
Hrm, I don’t. Part of the fun is learning how things work, and I’ve heard to many complaints of incompatibilities and lack of updates with Yuno, though I haven’t tried it, so second hand.
Agreed, that should be many tens of pages not one. Also the mobile layout isn’t very good. I think it’s important to remember that normies use their phones for almost everything.