I started on 28 may to try and self host vaultwarden.

It was not so hard I thought after spending a day to self host vaultwarden, immich with tailscale.

Then I went down the rabbithole of self hosting.

First came the hair pulling experience of nextcloud.( it took me 4 days to figure out how to use it with tailscale funnel 😂 and to clean up the mess I created in the meantime).

Then came cryptpad (because I did not like nextcloud docs even though both use the same) was not so hard I learned from nextcloud experience.

Then came jellyfin, it was relatively easy, just took me a little more than half a day.

Then came home assistant not much hard as I did not have any smart devices and I just wanted to try it out so can't tell much

Then I learned about portainer (ah how easy my life could have been if I had learned about it earlier or so I thought).

At last it was adguard home (I had to fall back to use terminal and ditch portainer) I literally LOST sleep and went at it for two days because on dnsleaktest it was showing my carrier name only to learn that quad9 has official partnership with them. (I made so many changes to my firewall deleted and reinstalled adguard multiple times only because of a single peice of misinformation 😇 THEY SAY afterall information is the most important weapon in war).

At first adguard left a bad taste in my mouth but after configuring it for two hours I feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction finally my homelab is complete.

EDIT: Now let's focus on my exam that are in ten days and I have used all my vacation on self hosting. Wish me luck.

Edit2: spelling error