Magnus Hedemark<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@Liaely" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Liaely</span></a></span> Don't overthink the hardware $$$. The "Servethehome" site has a bunch of articles under <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/projecttinyminimicro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectTinyMiniMicro</span></a> about repurposing super cheap corporate surplus desktop PC's as servers.</p><p>$$-wise, one of the best investments would really just be making sure you're using NVMe storage.</p><p>Tech-wise, get comfortable with <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Docker</span></a> and <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/dockercompose" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DockerCompose</span></a>.</p><p>Also get comfortable with a reverse proxy that you're going to get a lot of use out of. <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/traefik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Traefik</span></a> and <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/nginx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nginx</span></a> are really good ones that many tend to gravitate to.</p><p><a href="https://pompat.us/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoToSocial</span></a> might be the easiest one to deploy. <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> and <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/pixelfed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pixelfed</span></a> might be some of the hardest. <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/lemmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lemmy</span></a> & <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/peertube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peerTube</span></a> are somewhere in between in difficulty to set up.</p><p>I have some (non-enshittified / non-monetized) how-to's for deploying some <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfHosted</span></a> services on Docker if it helps. magnus919.com blog.</p><p>But really just get very comfortable with Docker and your reverse proxy. If you do both of those things, the rest becomes a lot easier. Traefik has more of a learning curve maybe than nginx but scales up really nicely, so once you've got it figured out it is ridiculously easy to add more services to it and get <code>https</code> "for free".</p>