You don’t need to be a programmer to selfhost.

The most important “skills” to have if you want to selfhost imo are:

• Basic Networking knowledge

• Basic Linux knowledge

• Basic docker/docker compose knowledge

But I’d say to not get lost in the papers and just jump right in. Imo, the best way to learn how to selfhost is to just… Do it. Most everything is free and fairly well documented

Aw yep, bought an old HP pro-lient something something with 2 old-ass intel xeons and 64GB ram for practically nothing. Thing’s been great. It’s a bit loud but runs anything I throw at it.

I really don’t care about the configuration, as long as all the data is safe

Nope

But will the new install be able to pick them up?

So the fact that the ZFS pools aren’t exported isn’t an issue?

I currently have 15 on my host and like 3 more in a VM

I use bitwarden, it’s pretty nice

Netdata is sorta my default choice…