Most of my friends are in tech, and I think one of them would enjoy hosting their own services if they got into it. Currently, I do most of our hosting, from media servers to game servers, but I think the hardest part is to give people an enticement to host.
For example, maybe they saw the lights automatically come on through the use of home automation like Home Assistant or maybe they wanted to control their own music library.
I think the idea of managing your own hardware and services doesn’t become enjoyable until you’ve already seen the outcome, such as having a resource or service available to you that you didn’t before. When I first got into selfhosting, I also had the problem with identifying what I wanted to host.
How do/did you get your friends interested in selfhosting? What services did they look into hosting themselves?
I’m not going to force someone into a hobby they aren’t interested in, I’m just curious how people brought the conversation up.
Thanks.
My friends could not care less. I even offered to let them use it for free. They just mock me about it.
You really don’t
You have friends? What’s that like?
I’d offer to be your friend, but how dare you use ${DISTRO1} when ${DISTRO2} is clearly the better choice!
Also, last week you asked a question that someone else on the internet previously asked. You monster!
I can only be friends with people who use Arch (btw).
I use NixOS, so your first comment is totally 100% invalid.
Find a problem they are experiencing and introduce them to a solution they can self-host to fix it. Expand from there.
I began my self-hosting journey 7ish years ago with media piracy and a desire to watch/access my files wherever I was. Learned of Plex, then Emby, Reverse Proxies, Domains, SSL, and on and on…
Today I’m running 24+ docker containers and some miscellaneous stuff, across 3 systems; that’s always accessible via my domain/vpn.
Bro I can’t finish getting myself into it
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NVR Network Video Recorder (generally for CCTV) Plex Brand of media server package SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
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