Run It Yourself
Overlaps somewhat with /c/floss_replacement and /c/privacy; crossposts welcome
I recommend Vultr for hosting and epik for domain name. my notes;
The Minimal Internet Blogger Starter Set
- your main static website (nginx-certbot) ^get^ ^started^^/^^youtube^ ^link^
- Writefreely - Blog ^alternatives^ ^get^ ^started^
- Pleroma - Social Network ^get^ ^started^
- Nextcloud - work backups and Cloud ^get^ ^started^
- XMPP/Matrix - Instant Messaging (Matrix is not recommended for weak cpus)^get^ ^started^^XMPP^^/^^Matrix^
- Email Server^get^ ^started^^/^^youtube^ ^link^
when setting up secure login keep in mind you're supposed to edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config not ssh_config, a little mistake from luke smith.
your static website is the most important thing for visitors. put everything there is to know about you here. make a good first impression. I would even put my blogs in my static website.
Self-hosting from home is very much possible with many ISPs and a dynDNS service (1984.is is nice and free and also has good prices for international domain names).
As for VPS hosting: I used ovh and netcup (tip: around easter they always do massive discounts) in the past and both are ok, but you get what you pay for... VPS hardware over-provisioning and fine-print hidden traffic throttling etc.
is 1984hosting.com the same website?
I think so, yes. But their 1984.is site can also be switched to english (press the flag twice).
alright, it seems reasonably priced, I'm gonna try it.
The dynDNS is free. You mean getting a DNS name with them? Their hosting offers are not especially good and more geared towards the ~~Islandic~~ Icelandic market.
both hosting and for dns, they're private right? 1984.is excuse me also can you also explain what Islandic market is?
Sorry, misspelling based on non-English name of the country.
They make a strong commitment about privacy on their website, but Iceland isn't part of the EU, so GDPR doesn't apply. In how far the Icelandic privacy laws are good I can't say, but in general the government there is quite progressive and likely does care about privacy.
well I love bjork, so why not. if they don't ask my personal info It's all cool.
I like hetzner and ovh, both are quite affordable without compromising on quality.
Hetzner is a good company. It you don't mind a few minutes downtime every once in a while to maintain or upgrade server, I'd recommended you to go with metalvps.com. It is run by a very friendly and experienced guy. I've been using his server for a while. Overall, amazing service, rock solid vps and the best support ever!
I use a Contabo storage VPS. very cheap and decent performance for my use case.
I self host Nextcloud (might switch to seafile), Bitwarden, a few personal sites, a Ghost blog, and my personal projects
I recommend https://ramnode.com because they have hourly billing, very good prices, good CPU performance, and best of all they have excellent support and even an official IRC channel on Freenode!
Glad to be self-hosting the following: Nextcloud - handy for work (cloud) Pleroma for activitypub connections, Matrix/Jitsi for messaging chat (both cloud) Miniflux RSS and Navidrome for music, (both lan) could be better options but those do the trick for now.