The beginning
it all started when i bought myself a laptop for school thanks to the funds i got during my summer job.
The free laptop that school gave us became a little nextcloud server, because at the time, my knowledge was limited, i just exposed the service to internet, thankfully, it had ssl with lets-encrypt included, i started with the snap package from canonical. When i discovered docker a few years later, i switched to it.
Now
From then, i learned a lot, either through classes or from my class mates.
I now run all my services behind reverse proxies, until now, nginx proxy manager, but i recently discovered zoraxy, it is as easy to use but has a lot more features.
Some of my services are hosted on a little VPS, some other are on a physical machine that i own that runs proxmox, i still have an old machine that runs a jellyfin with the help of some dark magic.
What i learned
From this still active project, i learned a lot of things, first, i learned how to set up a server using a linux distro and docker.
It helped me learn how DNS works, the different types of entries and subdomains. Overhaul, this project like the other little ones i made, helped me get familiar with a linux cli.