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They can listen to the Selfhosted Podcast or Selfhostcast
Visit beginner oriented self hosted blogs like https://noted.lol/ and https://selfh.st/articles/
Or get started building with an OS made to make self hosting a bit easier like UnRAID
I'll add a tiny little suggestion since I think this is generally in the vibe of making sure people even understand what they can self host - find the thing that interests them with a low barrier to entry, and for god's sake when you make a recommendation, don't go into hard mode immediately.
EG: if you have a friend over and they're like "wow this plex/jellyfin/emby thing is cool" then tell them about it, and don't tell them they need to buy a rack, learn about installing OS's, VMs, docker, RAID setups and filesystems, etc.
Either:
edit: this is a good example of why I really like unRAID for this. It's what I run now because although I know how to do all of the things that it accomplishes, it's just much easier. Even still I wouldn't expect a novice to really understand or get much done without help.
Yeah that’s why I recommend UnRAID specifically. I’m a datacenter system administrator and yet my home server is an UnRAID OS running in a 10 year old computer I got out of somebody’s garage for free. I have not yet felt like I needed a rack at any point and this thing runs like 30 different services. People tend to go from a Raapberry Pi which can efficiently run like, a couple things, to buying a big powerful server when like any old x86 box can do more than like 80% of people need.
Nice list!