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What is the most painful step on setting up a homelab in your experience? (alien.top)

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For me it is writting docker compose files describing my services. I like to test them on my machine before pushing them to the server(s). But I guess that's my own fault for not using something like portainer or even SSHFS.

What's the most annoying / painful step for you?

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[–] DrunkOnKnight@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Networking,

I’m a statistician by degree not a networking guy.

I don’t know anything other than what an IP address is. Figuring out subnetting, DNS, reverse proxy, VPN stuff.

I don’t know how secure my current setup is but it works so for now I’m not touching it.

[–] acme65@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

networking is also my weakest point. literally just last week as i was reading through cisco docs that L2 networking is mac based and thats why switches need ARP tables. i felt so dumb for not realizing this like 10 years ago lol