I host most things from home from and old gaming rig and a second Lenovo ThinkCentre m720q, lucky to have a 500/500 at about 7-9$. And no OS will allow you to just serve websites with domain names out of the box without a web server like apache, nginx, caddy or something
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There's no desktop GUI for Nginx setup, for example, you need to learn how to edit config files.
Installing a lot of self hosted things is usually done through terminal anyway, or instructions are available only for terminal, so there's little point in using GUI for self hosting. There are Web UI managment panels available like Webmin, Cockpit, Portainer, etc. That being said headless Linux is highly advised for servers for its stability and lower RAM usage.
It will basically show you everything you'd see on the screen.
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For example Hukot does it, and you can install any OS, even windows, and have a remote desktop connection to it. If VPS provider offers full VM like a KVM one then you likely get remote console connection, not SSH but like VNC. If this goes good, I'll either use a Raspberry Pi for simpler services and other stuff within a VM on my computer and after that, when I get more familiar with both servers/CLI and stuff I want to selfhost, I'll switch up to VPS. Go to Connection > Serial to configure the Options. Launch PuTTy, and Select the Connection type as Serial. UPDATE: Thanks everyone for your comments! Lots of good advices here - and the decision is to stop VPS server (just for budget purposes) and practice my CLI skills with a virtual machine. Physically connect one end of the serial cable (the RJ45 connector, the console cable supplied with the SF Device) to the console port on the front panel of Sophos Firewall and connect the other end to the PC’s serial port. David, If you are connecting to the Dockstar from a box running Debian, then you should install and use picocom: picocom -b 115200 -f n -p n -d 8 /dev/ttyUSB0'. I have a feeling that I would have to be a full sysadmin in order to selfhost something.Īnd if I take a shared hosting route - having the comfort of cPanel - but then I can't install too much stuff other than simple php/mysql stuff and even then, everything is too slow to use normally. Not a command line dude, can't install ubuntu with GUI to make thing a bit easier for me, a lot of server security questions and everything that goes with it. techy? I tried to set up a VPS server over at Hetzner - and it's just an overkill for me. On the other hand, to self host stuff on a VPS or a dedicated server at some hosting company seems a bit too. When you say "selfhosting" - do most of you have a server somewhere in your home, and if so - what is your internet connection like? Because in my country upload speeds are pretty slow and it's quite a pain in the rear to host something from a local machine and accesss it online.