My ultimate goal with learning this is I want to self host my own Monero node and eventually maybe even self host emails and after that learn docker as well.

But I am a long, long way from there.

Where do I start with something like this if I have no experience with networking?

Should I just start with learning a VPS? I just don’t like the idea of me not being able to physically control the server because I think one day Monero might be outlawed or something.

But I’ll do whatever I have to to learn.

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    9 days ago

    @catloaf @monkeyman512 If I can give one advice : learn docker first, rent a vps. If you want to move to physical self host it will force you to test how to deploy everything from one host to another which is a critical step after being able to have things just working.
    The mail suite I use is mailcow-dockerized and it’s awesome.

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      9 days ago

      I know a VPS is a simple thing in theory but sometimes it’s a lot for a beginner.

      A VPS paired with Docker may also unintentionally expose something not meant for the outside world due to it ignoring iptables and ufw