Table of contents¶

1. Introduction

   Welcome, copyright, prerequisites, style.

2. Background

   Reasoning, inspiration, motivation, author info, deeper meaning.

3. Your journey

   Why you should or should not self-host.

4. Practical examples

   Examples validating self-hosting.

5. Plan

   Budget, resources, schedule, transition, user support.

6. System design

   Service stack, security, operating system.

7. Implementation

   How to prepare your server for mario and perform maintenance.

8. mario

   How to provision your server (prepare it for running services).

9. Services

   How to run Nextcloud and a few other self-hosted services.

10. What's next?

    Ideas for future learning, homelab projects, improvements.

11. More resources

    Source code, contact info, support, alternatives to this book.

12. Discussion topics

    Conversation starters for a group of readers.

13. Exercises

    Applied usage ideas for a group of readers.