Does anyone else here participate in the selfhosting hobby without a formal IT related education or a career in a similar field? I’ve only had one or two programming courses as part of my university education, but it was only very basic Python and C. I’ve never formally learned how to use containers, version control or anything else. Sometimes I regret not pursuing an education in IT/programming because there are so many things I’d like to accomplish but can’t (for example if there’s a feature missing in some project, or to feel safe in my abilities to harden my servers and my network in order to expose services to the open internet).

  • Willdrick
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    2 months ago

    The only time I regret not going for an IT career is when I have to tinker with networking stuff (proxy, NAT hairpinning, vlans and all that). Other than that, resources online are abundant for learning and understanding wtf I’m doing