Yeah it actually wasn’t hard… I used to make websites back in the 90s with html, and that’s about as technical as I get… I actually just went to the start9 website and looked in their forum on diy because I didn’t want to spend $500-1300 for one of their servers. There were steps and links to all the components available on Amazon and then after a little more research I actually found that I liked the amount of plugin and play program options that Umbrel had so I ended up just downloading and installing their operating system… took about 30 minutes to put it together and about that long to install Umbrel and from there I went