[chillbill]

I'm all for tech independence. But if you need to be spoon-fed the instructions like this and you don't get what most of it is doing, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THIS. Best case scenario you'll get locked out of your own stuff or important information.

Yes, you should strive for that, and you start by learning. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be a linux ninja to be able to host your own website and calendar.

The stuff mentioned in this article are the bare minimum, and you should want to do it yourself without being spoon fed the steps.

With that aside, this is exactly the kind of guide I would expect a three-letter agency contractor or worker to spread in order to "help you" stay off the grid, then unceremoniously drop a disaster on your head.

[iksm]

Totally agree. Better look for local associations that provides hosting services if you don't have any system administration knowledge. They'll help you more, and you'll waste less time and probably money, plus they may help you physically setting up your devices correctly with your services hosted on their servers.

I mean, yeah it's a minimal step by step guide that just feel to be the poster's own todo list... As there's many like that. To get some entry-point information this is great but this is far from being useful in practice.

Basically it hides everything useful to know behind a big script that the intended reader is not even supposed to understand.

I did not have seen any protection for what's come from WAN, not even basic logging, investigation nor debugging methodology. No real backup methodology as well and the guide seems to not take system upgrades very seriously by saying "oh, it could run so for decades, but if you want you can do system upgrades".

This is obviously false to any expert and a very risky approach. This is not how we are supposed to teach internet-connected services self-hosting.

[comte7092]

Partially agree. A guide like this helps combat the potential overwhelm of feeing like you still have too much to learn/can’t possibly get started.