started with a simple media server, now i’m running my own mail, calendaring, document storage, password manager, vpn, monitoring, and probably half a dozen other things i’ve forgotten about. my wife just asks if “the internet is working” now, not ‘is netflix down’. it’s glorious, but also… a lot. anyone else go from zero to homelab hero in record time? what kicked off your journey into the self-hosted abyss?
So you’ll do this add all the services thing, then transition to refining the quality. Hosting email, then working on spam prevention and webmail. Setting up Jellyfin, then getting live TV recording working. Increasing security on the above with fail2ban, VPN, VLANs, virtualization, let the currents of self hosting carry you where they may