Nope, I work in STEM but not IT nor software.
I'm a serial hobbyist and actively pursue projects outside the scope of my job and education background.
I started self-hosting a music server locally on a Raspberry Pi long before I switched careers to go into IT. I actually learned a lot that way.
Sound designer here. I always liked to tinker with digital stuff, and while I think %90 of the self hosted apps must’ve been simple .EXEs, I’m having fun setting them up around.
Warehouse worker who self hosts stuff here.
It all started when I was a teenager and I lost access to my photobucket account...
I don't work in IT at all. My self hosting journey started when I got sick of feeling powerless in the face of big tech companies who are increasingly ripping off customers or violating their right to privacy. There's also the general mistrust that comes from my data being repeatedly breached or leaked because share holder profits are more important than investing in basic security.
I have no formal IT education. But I grew up on computers when command line was how you got things done.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
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I work warehousing; no IT background, I just like to tinker with whatever. Have since I started breathing.
I was a fairly casual pirate, grabbing movies/shows I couldn't find elsewhere (or just couldn't afford). Got into Plex/Emby for my first real exploration into self-hosting (if you don't count SRCDS and/or Minecraft Server at like 13yo); and expanded my knowledge from there. Reverse Proxys, the 'arrs', DNS, Docker, VPNs, etc.
Now a days, I've got 20+ services that I mostly access via a VPN I host, and I'm always interested in messing with new things :)
I'm "techy", but not in a tech career. By that I mean I've always been casually interested in tech, and enjoy building my own PCs, and am usually the one people come to for tech help, even if I just end up googling it for them haha.
Got into hosting through Home Assistant and Foundry VTT.
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