>>7390You need to have Linux skills if you want to host a chan. Knowing how to program (preferably in the same language that the chan software uses) is only beneficial but it's not a hard requirement. Also, knowing some SQL can be beneficial as well (but it's not a hard requirement either).
Some resources:
- Start with
https://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp and the w3schools CSS tutorial. But don't use the rest of w3schools tutorials because they suck.
Another great resource is
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn- Learn Linux skills:
https://xubuntu.org/ +
https://www.virtualbox.org/ +
https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php(you can also dual-boot Linux and Windows. You just need to use Windows disk management utilities to shrink a partition. Reserve 20GB or more for Linux. Use the existing EFI System Partition and make at least the / (root) file system. But the Xubuntu installer should ask if you want to use the free space and it should do the partitioning automatically in that case). You can use Rufus (
https://rufus.ie/en/) to make a flash drive that contains the Xubuntu installer and the live environment. You can use PowersHell to check the integrity of the installation iso file: Get-FileHash xubuntu.iso -Algorithm SHA256
(You can first practice installing Xubuntu using VirtualBox virtual machine without making any changes your real HDD)
- (optionally) Learn how to program:
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/-
https://landchad.net/ (this is the tl;dr guide to hosting stuff but make sure to also read the docs of whatever software you are going to use)
You want to use JSchan, LynxChan or Lainchan's fork of vichan as your chan software.
