Self hosting: real game starts today
So, it’s done: my main domain has finally got its transfer to Hostinger, new provider where I have the VPS I’m experimenting in.
Real game with WordPress multisite/multilingual and self-hosted Fediverse starts TODAY!
With WordPress (or any CMS) keep in mind that if you don’t really need visitor-facing dynamic features (like comments), then you can self-host the admin and content editing completely privately, and only export a static “dump” of the finished website pages as plain HTML/CSS/JS and images.
You can serve these static files fairly efficiently yourself with a small HTTP server, or upload to a CDN service which will take care of things like redundancy, availability, replicated content for faster access from certain geographic areas, you won’t care about denial of service or bots etc.
Meanwhile your CMS software is completely isolated from break-ins or drive-by bot attacks. As a perk, you can experiment with different CMS freely without fundamentally changing your approach, because they all produce static files one way or another. You can try for example Hugo, or a fediverse-enabled microblogging app like Pleroma, Misskey or even Mastodon.
@elettrona @selfhosted Wordpress and fediverse… that’s impressive as a starting point; most people begin with a basic web server and some hand-written pages.
@khleedril @selfhosted It is 25 years I work on web, I started this self-hosting experience on my personal website, through YunoHost, which is a web-based application manager. Users say terminal knowledge is not needed, but, well, it helps a lot!
I’m not a sysadmin, can’t manage a VPS from scratch. But I do my best to make things work.Who tf starts with hand written pages? I always heard nextcloud, WordPress or the like.
vim index.html
<html><header><title>Welcome</title></header> <body><h1>Welcome</h1> <p>Here's my random thoughts and links I keep forgetting </body></html>:wqWhy would I want to learn wordpress, much less spin up a database, for that?
Nothing wrong with that, just not what many people are doing these days in my experience.
