I’ve self hosted a lot of things on my own network without issue for a long time. However, I’m having trouble grasping how a few things work with lemmy as it uses a series of docker containers and some configuration files on the host. I guess I don’t really understand where things like encryption certs are stored and how I could change that if I wanted to or how to get into a database and retrieve user info or even reset the admin password if that got lost somehow. I run daily automatic backups, so it shouldn’t be a big issue if something goes sideways, but I’d rather be able to fix it rather than having to reset.
This will show all the individual steps happening to configure an instance without docker: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible
This is the guide I used, it’s pretty automatic with ansible.