That actually helps a lot, thanks!

I appreciate the extra details but I still don’t know what “caddy”, “VPS”, “tailscale tunnel”, or “zero days” are, but I can look it up.

Can someone ELI5? I’m a noob who aspires to set up immich in the near future. I only recently started making efforts to separate myself from the cloud. So far I’ve got a wireguard server set up and I’ve disconnected both my Bambu printers from the cloud and I’m currently setting up some home assistant stuff. Pretty soon I’m hoping to set up a NAS, Immich, Plex (or similar) and replace my google nest cameras.

Hey OP, I’m just starting my self-hosting journey as well. I can program a little bit in Python and C++ but I haven’t needed any of that so far. As others have said, some familiarity with Linux would be very helpful. The things I’ve done so far:

• Wireguard VPN server on my router(no programming or linux commands, just some config of my router which I was able to do in the router’s GUI.
• Wireguard VPN client on some of my devices. My phone setup was easy, still working on setting that up on my Windows/Ubuntu laptop.
• Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi (WIP).

Eventually I plan to set up a NAS with Immich and some local IP cameras and Plex or something similar.

Maybe I could do this for my Switch 🤔

Holy shit

I voluntarily subject myself to his rants on youtube. That server is very close to what I’m looking for. Something that can do 10 gbps would be ideal. Just today I came across this. Seems pretty good but going to keep looking.

They seem nice but the ones that can do SFP+ start at around $600

I need a guide

Yes please

First, thanks everyone for all the info, glad I posted. It’s a lot to go through.

OpenWRT is the most frequently recommended thing here, and my router is not supported. I somewhat recently purchased my router (Asus AX6600) when I switched to fiber due to its high bandwidth and I’d prefer to not replace it. I’ll look around and see what options I have for putting a separate device upstream of my current hardware and if that doesn’t work out then maybe I’ll replace my current router.

I see that you can install openwrt on a switch. Would it make sense to put a switch with openwrt upstream of my current router/AP?

Edit: dang there’s only 1 switch supported by openwrt that has 10 gbps ports (ZyXEL XGS1250-12)

He explains things pretty well, I definitely want to understand what I’m doing. I just prefer to have the knowledge consolidated into a single guide instead of searching for all the different components and maybe some things don’t end up working as expected.

Trying to create a router yourself is complicated.

Presumably not when Louis walks you through every step of it. That’s a big part of my motivation for just going through his guide.

They’re definitely on my radar whenever I get around to setting up a NAS

Came here to say the same thing, I was just playing it like 30 minutes ago. It’s in alpha and it’s already sooo good. If you played the original Total Annihilation then you’ll probably love it.

How about one that doesn’t fold?

I’m envious that you have useful public transport.

Fuck Take-Two. They wrecked KSP2.

It would have been but it was released way too early.

I’d play it