Ieris19

What repo?

That’s basically the problem, yet almost everywhere people make these look so essential and necessary

I’m not interested in Plex/Jellyfin or any other media service that this sub seems to be obsessed with.

I mostly deploy my own applications so I don’t get shortcuts and need to work most of the tools directly. That’s perhaps some of my frustration

I’ve always struggled to find good books. And as a broke student in college, the ones I find are either too expensive or unavailable in my region.

It’s also highly illegal and actually prosecuted to do piracy where I live, so I don’t want to do that…

Except using a VPS defeats the purpose of trying to learn how to deploy my own apps…

I don’t have a need but I do have a goal for the things I want to setup.

I got downvoted to oblivion for saying I didn’t even find what kind of software I could use to make an internal authoritative DNS service for example, where I want to create a custom internal TLD for my VPN.

But apparently people took offense I’d never heard of bind and assumed PiHole was proprietary…

Putting a server in front of my own defeats the whole purpose of self-hosting for me.

I didn’t say CloudFlare “bullshit” so aggressively for no reason.

I want to learn, because I feel like I should know how to deploy stuff and my uni is not teaching me.

That doesn’t even scratch the surface with the issues I face…

Quite the contrary, I’m stuck at finding a reverse proxy in the first place. If I didn’t know nginx had a reverse proxy, which is the only one I know about, where would I even start finding the docs? I can’t repeat this enough, but I rarely ever do tutorials, I find them basic and lackluster

I don’t think I need specifically a reverse proxy rn so I don’t really have a clue about that kind of service specifically, but even finding WHAT to use to do an authoritative DNS was a challenge in its own right that I only solved somewhere else in this thread.

I wanna preface this making something clear, I have probably never managed to follow a tutorial. I usually have an idea and try to run it. What I’m getting stuck at is precisely at the “what are my options”

I did say that I understand why docs expect you to be familiar with knowledge, I’m even complaining that I don’t need to read what something is a million times and sometimes I just need to get a solution to my problem.

My biggest issue here is lack of experience, but after two years in an IT education, I know some basics. I am familiar with countless topics and have a general idea of how things work in theory, but getting these ideas into a setup is what’s hard. Uni doesn’t help at all with this.

I think my problem is quite honestly the opposite of what you present, I need to know deeper knowledge than what’s enough and have trouble actually conceptualizing things that are presented as magic. For example, Docker presents itself as magic in most of the docs. Volumes, layers, and so much more are explained with how to make one and what to use them for rather than what they are. It might just be the way I memorize things is weird, or that I’m stuck with too little knowledge and way too deep.

I do mostly agree with your comment though, I just feel like I’m shit at explaining myself cause I’m clearly not getting my point across

While this post is a bit of a generic rant, I do know what I’m trying to do, and the issue is that as soon as you go into anything slightly more complex than setting up a VPN, you’ll be bombarded with a thousand words that barely mean anything, everyone and their mother has a different opinion on what’s optimal, minimal and desired and to top all of that, most resources out there focus on making you understand what things are rather than how to set it up.

My issue and what I was ranting is why is most shit on the internet so unhelpful, hoping to find someone who’s had a similar struggle and learn how to get better. And I’ve succeeded, many people have given me useful advice.

I never said anything remotely as vague as “computers are hard” I think my post clearly states my issue is with resources being unhelpful for complete beginners

It comes with experience I guess, I’ve got a bad habit of researching to the core and many times have a hard time grasping things like containers without understanding how it’s setup technically. Sometimes I find a decent explanation, but specially for libraries that do “magic” I gotta go diving into the source to understand what’s going on, else I have trouble understanding what I am doing and what I should be doing.

Which makes it so hard because networking is very low level and I’m very unfamiliar with this environment