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Patience, most of all.
Also, backups and notes. The solution you use to host might take care of the backups. For example, I use Unraid, so if any drive fails the system can simulate the data on that drive until I can get it shut down to replace it, and then recreate the data on the new drive.
As for notes, those are important so that you can always know what you’ve done, and what you need to do. That way, if you ever have to do it again, say if you’re setting up another server or replacing one that failed, you know the steps you took to get it set up exactly how you like. It’s also handy because you’ll be doing things like assigning services to ports, and you’ll probably at some point want to know what services are on what ports without going through and checking each one. Things like that are handy things to stick in notes.
Other than that, you don’t need a lot of skills to set something like a home server up. You just need to read the documentation for each service you’re planning to use, and get familiar with how it works.
Unraid is not a backup. It is good, but if your data goes wrong for different reasons or you lose the entire device, you can't restore it. Dedicated backups are a must for anything serious!
Unraid absolutely is a backup. That’s the whole point of the OS. And furthermore , the backup can be backed up at any time and stored on another device, allowing you to restore the entire OS and its configuration. And by “lose the entire device”, I’m assuming you mean the OS is corrupted. At that point, you simply burn a new USB and reconnect the drives, or move them to any other system running Unraid.