Given the repeat questions you can find here on basics, it’s kind of surprising there doesn’t appear to be a commonly shared FAQ, website, or book going over some of the basics.
E.g. ways to safely connect to home servers over the internet while away, when it may be better to spin up services on a VPS instead, etc.
Have I been overlooking some shared text-based resource concerning the subject, or…?
Also fwiw I did look at the sidebar links, and the awesome-sysadmin link has links to sections for blogs/books, but as of writing this, they were empty sections.
https://esc.sh/projects/devops-from-scratch/ is a good resource. Most questions you have (that are more specific) are easily searchable on the internet.
ways to safely connect to home servers over the internet while away
A couple methods include :
- Installing Wireguard on the host machine
- Reverse-proxying with a VPS
- Cloudflare zero-trust tunnel
when it may be better to spin up services on a VPS instead
Most services you probably won’t need a VPS to do, but off the top of my head a couple services which would be better hosted (not saying self-hosting them on your own hardware is bad) would be services which proxy a service. Example SearxNG, Invidious, Proxitok, etc. This is so that traffic can be shared among multiple users, and not linked back to your home IP.