Posts in Self-hosting

Self-hosting: server hardware

Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:

internet connection with public IP

router allowing port forwarding

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Self-hosting: starting an adventure

Over next few weeks/posts, I’ll focus solely on self-hosting adventure. To start, beside free time and motivation to learn new things, you will need just a few components:

internet connection with public IP

router allowing port forwarding

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Hello world!

Welcome to my new blog! I’ll gradually describe all my adventures with self-hosting of various services, including blog/website, files and photos.

I started my website/blog in 2014. It was served using wordpress that was set up on virtual machine (VM) in google cloud.

I felt for a long time that running a dedicated VM for a blog is an overkill. There was huge overhead in maintaining both, the VM (regular system updates and backups) as well as wordpress itself (updates and database backups).

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