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What to study to be able to host a site? (thebrainbin.org)
submitted 1 day ago by Auster@thebrainbin.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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For some months now, I've been trying to set up an Mbin instance, since as it's more manual than the other softwares I found, and I understand things better if I can see the logic behind them. I'd rather do that before going for automated processes where if something breaks, I don't know how to handle. However, trying to figure things out as I go, it's so much stuff that I figured out instead what I knew was very little.

As I was also interested in hosting other sites, this made me reevaluate things, and turns out several things I don't know, like how to host two sites in a same machine, how to handle horizontal attacks, what some tools are used for, etc.

So going back to the title, what to study? Maybe some specific book? Private classes/courses? Online tutorials? Something else? Just no university suggestion, please - from experience, they are extremely shallow at best.

Thanks in advance!

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would suggest starting out with nginx and just setting up a basic homepage for yourself. Even if it's just a title and background... doesn't matter.

This way you have to solve problems like how to reach your page from the outside (your own domain? DDNS? etc) and also how to set up Certbot for HTTPS (which a lot of services will also require later). That already includes setting up kind of parallel configurations (one for http that than redirects to https, one for https) in nginx. And you will do both later again, because you use the same dual setups to serve two different websites on the same IP depending on which the addressname a visitor entered and also will redirect some of them (or sublocations of your page) to other services that provide a webinterface as a reverse proxy.

[–] False@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

This is the way to go. Do a simple website that says "hello world" then add all the other infrastructure around it until it's a real webpage accessible on the Internet. Only then should you move onto something complex like mbin. Don't skip the basics