I recently got into the world of self-hosting, and although I'm doing it through a VPS I've learned many interesting things, even so, I've only had my VPS contracted for 10 days, and of those 10 days, 8 I spent burning my head learning concepts that I had never heard or understood, and actually it's funny because I remember that's what it was like to learn to use Linux.
To begin with, I started with Ubuntu 22.04 and docker, in some situations installing the service was simple, running a command in my console and opening a browser in localhost and the port used, simple, but as I was installing services I found some that they simply exceeded my patience and knowledge, as was Peertube where I simply do not understand why I need to put a name and a password to a thousand different databases, and many times they use concepts like <SECRET KEY> I don't have the slightest idea what it means.
And so, I came across Yunohost, who makes the selfhosting process miserably easy, but so easy it honestly makes me feel dirty, to the point that I remember dualbooting Windows simply out of fear of Linux.
Now, I have 100% intentions to learn all those concepts that I don't know and manage my servers on my own and it's not that I'm "afraid" to do things on my own, but I need a stable server where I can have my services hosted, I can't create a docker instance to realize the following week that I restart the server to update that I forgot to point to a persistent volume and I lost all my data, which didn't happen to me but it was possible because in the end I do this for hobby and I'm experimenting.
And I don't know, I don't feel exactly "good" with Yunohost, I mean, it works great but what if for example I want to host something that is not in their list of supported services? I basically screwed myself. I feel like I'm in the same situation where I dualbooted Windows just for fear of Linux.
Edit: Thank you all for commenting! I am not answering them one by one because it would take me too long, but I want to clarify that I do read the messages and I agree with most of the comments, if not all! Although yes, I won't keep burning my head over it, while my VPS works, I'll learn everything I can virtualizing on my own PC.
I spent days trying to go from 0-100 figuring out the technical stuff and was making myself very stressed out and upset. I decided to just go to Yunohost and it just made things dead simple and in retrospect, enjoyable.
When I'm ready to learn I'll spin up a new server and try to implement the same services the "hard" way, but for now I'll continue to enjoy all the benefits of self hosted with a dead simple solution for implementing it. Don't let e-peens get you down.