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Do you participate in this hobby without a formal IT education or a career in a similar field? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by blight@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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).

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[–] farmgineer@nord.pub 1 points 19 hours ago

I don't do any self-hosting anymore, but when I started I only had a couple uni classes that were related (I quit after about 9 months as uni wasn't for me when I was 17). I somehow got recommended Gentoo linux back in the early 2000s and stood up my first server not long after (and got a lot of lessons in dealing with email servers). Now, I just don't have the time to do it as a hobby and certainly not the money for any hardware in this economy. I thankfully never had any real security/hacking issues thanks in part to good guides even back then. It actually taught me a lot about both linux and many other things. I'm now a software engineer for a living, but mostly just doing backend work with little exposure to the infra side.