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1. Not a lot of work, probably a day to move things. 2. Almost none. I used Heroku and understood what it was doing on a very surface level. I knew I could push

1. Not a lot of work, probably a day to move things. 2. Almost none. I used Heroku and understood what it was doing on a very surface level. I knew I could push my repo and my project would automagically be "there", but since I was early on in my learning process, I didn't know for sure what was happening. So the migration was a great experience to understand how to setup my website, how to setup a reverse proxy, how to prepare the certificates, how to secure a linux box and many many more (it's an ongoing process!) 3. Extremely. I am now a huge supporter of IAAS in general. I think all the things I learned are valuable in general and widely applicable. I know what an lsblk does, I know what ufw allow/deny does and so on. Hell, at the most basic level I understand how to use nano to edit some config files, how to search or edit files from a terminal. I really enjoy it and I went as far as to setup my own home server. 4-5. A lot cheaper now. I had one website running and another hobby project and that was 7$ a month. I have my website now (static page with caddy as reverse proxy), pihole vps, another VPS used to do backup checks, VPN server - all these are free, except the website which runs on the cheapest Hetzner vps and I could probably run other things on it. 6. I think everyone should spend some time deploying their apps o a remote server, securing it and accessing it. Even if you never use this again, it will help you understand how to manage all of these things and get a better idea of the information flow from start to finish. Learning how to poke around a command line is also very helpful.

nomilk 4y ago
> the migration was a great experience to understand how to setup my website, how to setup a reverse proxy, how to prepare the certificates, how to secure a linux box If you have any resources on the topics you had to learn, please share! > I went as far as to setup my own home server. Congrats! How long did it take you to skill up from Heroku to home server?
- pSYoniK 4y ago
  I started with Digital Ocean (DO) and Linode's guides to get an idea of the setup in general - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-22-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-ser... (you can change distros if you're wanting the guide for something else) and https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/set-up-and-secure/ https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/set-up-and-secure/ I used DO because I had gotten some free credits as a student and they were valid for a year, so it gave me time to experiment. Once I went through the guides, I started researching the topic further, each time expanding on anything I didn't know or understand. To go from Heroku to home server, I spent about a year all in all doing the research, learning what needs to be done, what hardware, what security considerations and so on. Before buying the server hardware and doing that, I setup a VM with the Linux distro I wanted to use, mimicked the storage setup and then went about doing the whole setup from start to finish and documenting things along the way. Installing, setting up users, changing login policies, adding drives, formatting them, hard drive error checking and automated notifications, setting up docker containers, docker container backups, container updates, limiting access of containers, setting up network shares, LAN sync, multimedia playback, software backups and automated server backups. Each new step would highlight a new learning opportunity and would raise new questions. It's really interesting and I went ahead and installed Pop OS (initially I used Zorin os pro) on all my devices which gave me a place to test out small scripts to automate a system reinstall/setup. My next goal is to collate all of this information and organize it into a guide that explores this setup from start to finish, but that's a few months out. After that I want to move away from a single Linux install running to a Proxmox install on my home server, a couple of VMs running my services and space set aside to allow me to start a new VM when I want to test something out. I also want to build my own router using Open BSD. Hope this helps!

nomilk 4y ago

> the migration was a great experience to understand how to setup my website, how to setup a reverse proxy, how to prepare the certificates, how to secure a linux box If you have any resources on the topics you had to learn, please share! > I went as far as to setup my own home server. Congrats! How long did it take you to skill up from Heroku to home server?

pSYoniK 4y ago
I started with Digital Ocean (DO) and Linode's guides to get an idea of the setup in general - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-22-04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-ser... (you can change distros if you're wanting the guide for something else) and https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/set-up-and-secure/ https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/set-up-and-secure/ I used DO because I had gotten some free credits as a student and they were valid for a year, so it gave me time to experiment. Once I went through the guides, I started researching the topic further, each time expanding on anything I didn't know or understand. To go from Heroku to home server, I spent about a year all in all doing the research, learning what needs to be done, what hardware, what security considerations and so on. Before buying the server hardware and doing that, I setup a VM with the Linux distro I wanted to use, mimicked the storage setup and then went about doing the whole setup from start to finish and documenting things along the way. Installing, setting up users, changing login policies, adding drives, formatting them, hard drive error checking and automated notifications, setting up docker containers, docker container backups, container updates, limiting access of containers, setting up network shares, LAN sync, multimedia playback, software backups and automated server backups. Each new step would highlight a new learning opportunity and would raise new questions. It's really interesting and I went ahead and installed Pop OS (initially I used Zorin os pro) on all my devices which gave me a place to test out small scripts to automate a system reinstall/setup. My next goal is to collate all of this information and organize it into a guide that explores this setup from start to finish, but that's a few months out. After that I want to move away from a single Linux install running to a Proxmox install on my home server, a couple of VMs running my services and space set aside to allow me to start a new VM when I want to test something out. I also want to build my own router using Open BSD. Hope this helps!