Self hosting seemed so very daunting up until a year or so ago. I decided to give it a shot while struggling to find a way to keep my notes. OneNote isn't good

Self hosting seemed so very daunting up until a year or so ago. I decided to give it a shot while struggling to find a way to keep my notes. OneNote isn't good (no Linux support), wasn't a fan of Evernote, Nuclino was crawling on my old laptop and I ended up finding BookStackApp. This led me to find a cheap VPS, install it using the install script and then figure stuff out from there. It led me to setting up a home server and working my way through the entire setup - format and mount drives, automate backups, automate hdd health checks, setup smb, docker, traefik, emby and so on. At this point I'm looking at experimenting with Proxmox as my server is overkill (it also made me realize how few resources are used in these setups... we end up needing 2-3000$ systems to just run an OS... which is absolutely ridiculous). Linux showed me that in order to do any meaningful work you don't need a 3k machine. In any case, I'm in the process of arranging ALL my notes in order and I plan on publishing a guide that walks a user through the setup step by step. I know people are talking about a lot of the complexities, but you can always share your knowledge. Help someone setup an old linux box to use as an smb nas... get them to install jellyfin or emby or plex on it and even there you have already massively helped them in the right direction. I think it's our responsibility to share our knowledge and empower people to migrate or at least understand what's involved.