You’re probably not going to find someone knowledgeable that’s willing to do open ended support like that, because we all know it turns into a huge time sink. But if you post specifics we can try to help.

The truth is self hosting also involves a lot of self learning. People will help you solve problems, but nobody has time to give free classes.

Start by walking us through what you're trying to do, and where you've run into problems.

Not to be a dick, but to explain why forming the question the way you did will not get you any assistance or responses for that matter.

https://dontasktoask.com

The truth is, not a single person here went to self-hosting school, we got to where we are because of our love for the craft. I hope this doesn’t discourage you from trying. The high you’ll get from finally solving that one error you’ve been trying to resolve for hours is one I love experiencing over and over again which is why I self-host.

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I asked if anyone would be willing to help myself and possibly others to get some services running, and I asked to do it in a videoconference setting where we can have a discussion and where you can see what I’m doing as I’m doing it, out of respect for both of our time.

Sure, I can do that. My rates start at $90/hr, 4hr minimum.

Since the other people don't seem too helpful to you, we can gladly setup a meeting and see where it goes :) I don't have exeprience in all these software like TrueNAS you're using but I have a lot of experience in a lot of other things, so I'm sure I'll be able to help!

Honestly, Switch to a basic Linux distro and use docker directly.

I ran TrueNAS for a while and it's just too complex and janky. I dropped back to void (for ZFS) and have a directory of compose files for radar/sonar, jellyfish, mediawiki, Lemmy etc.

It's better if you struggle, you will learn more that way. For me, the struggle is the fun part anyway. Also, if you need these services to be bulletproof you probably shouldn't be self-hosting them.

It's not that hard. Go to awesome-selfhosted to have a look at what you'd like to host. Then, go to YouTube and find videos that host said thing. If you don't find the specific application, watch simpler tutorials deploying containers (most people will use Docker if you'd like) and go from there. Read some documentation on the container runtime and maybe some networking. That's it.

Yeah at this point I’m ready to pay someone for help. I wasn’t expecting setting up a mastodon or piped instance in docker to be so hard.

If you need something running fast and easy buy a synology nas. Not the best hardware and expensive geat if youi dont have the time to mess around with stuf like unraid etc. There a lots of great guides on setting op docker containers on that. https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/ is a geat example of easy to follow guides.

If you are successful in this, perhaps a twitch channel walking through the basics running on a regular ish basis