I will check out that community. Seems incredibly friendly and supporting!

Proxmox is something in my distant future but regardless. I will hopefully get there eventually

Yes the piHole is running on a rpi.

Never actually thought about having it on the go. Cool idea!

That takes away a lot of stress. Knowing to just get started and ignore the best approach instead of just a getting started approach and learn as you go.

For the longest time I wanted to get rid if my google drive or google calendar and host one myself.

Email as I have read is something more advanced but I would like to self host my email as well.

Photos eventually too.

As a lot of people have recommended nextcloud that seems like where my interest might be heading.

As a starting point. Are there any hardware recommendations for a toy home server?

That seems like a sensible approach.

The whole area around selfhosting not just the deployment keeps me in somewhat of an analysis paralysis. Like what a reverse proxy is and why it is beneficial, how to set up and configure ssl and the whole area about not using a compromised service kind of keep me from starting.

Locally and not connected to the Internet might be the best way to get started and then I will hopefully someday be able to remotely use my services.

Trash guides did not show me anything when I tried to look them up. What exactly is that?

Docker seems the way to go for me now! Thank you for the nice write up.

I definitely do not now what I am doing so the word of caution is greatly appreciated!

The whole thing about remotely accessing is probably something I put on my ToDo list as soon as I get a service up and running. Nevertheless reading it and just knowing about Wireguard and Tailscale is a huge benefit to me.

Is there a personal recommendation which of your listed projects to get started with?

I am not unfamiliar with Linux.

Kind of lucky/unlucky as a broke student I did not have money to buy a new Windows machine.

Now I am kind of glad about it.

Docker on the other hand I have had barely any contact with it so far. So I definitely check that out.

Thank you! I will definitely give them a read/watch.

The hardest thing I face is the definition of small.

I struggled with the main definition of small. Thankfully there are kind people here to guide me in the right direction.

Starting with a service I do not just yet want to rely on is my main goal to build it up from there.

Thank you for sharing!

I will give it try it seems like a great starting point.

I usually just post if I can contribute anything meaningful. Seems like I a might be the embodiment of a lurker. Haha

As far as I can tell at least assembled in Germany. Cases are 3D printed by the seller.

The seller is a German local and approachable. PCB’s are ordered from somewhere but I can not tell you from where. Might be European might be Chinese.

Seems like a one person company and the German market for custom ergonomic low profile split keyboards isn’t too large.

So if you are interested just sent a message and ask yourself! His discord is active but as far as I can tell E-Mail works as well.

Wow. First post I can actually contribute to!

Yes, I have ordered a keyboard from keebart. I ordered the 3w6 and asked on his discord for some custom changes. He helped me with the customization and gave me a few options to choose from.

I wasn’t really too precise in what I wanted but keebart was really good in giving me exactly what I wanted.

Really happy customer. I picked it up in person and the response times on his discord are incredibly quick.