Hey selfhosters.
I have a question about starting self hosting; I have run Jellyfin on an old MacBook for a bit and wanna dip more than a toe into the self host pool. Are there any guides out there you’d recommend for actual, complete beginners who knows nothing but wants to learn?
I’ve searched a lot but it feels like they’re pretty advanced for beginners. Is it just a really sharp learning curve to this, or am I not finding the good ones?
Edit: To clarify what level I’m really, truly at: I run the Jellyfin server on regular macOS and have an external 5TB drive connected via usb. That’s it.
Honestly, start small - buy some cheap hardware that supports NVMe - an old desktop, a raspberry pi 5, a latte panda… Then set it up as a server with your favorite Linux distro. If you’ve never done it before, stick with one of the big ones; Raspian, Ubuntu, etc. Get that up and running. Then install Jellyfin on it and test it out so you learn the stack.
Do you have eyes on something you would like to do past Jellyfin?