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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-10-29 at 15:26

My intention is to move my static blog (created with Zola) from Netlify to self-hosting on a DigitalOcean VPS (running Debian). I would like to have a better idea of what is involved in hosting a website.

Documentation on DO is quite good.

I'm thinking of using DO for DNS management and Caddy as the web server:

https://caddyserver.com/

[#]Selfhosted #VPS #Debian #Linux #DNS #Caddy

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Written by Axel on 2024-10-29 at 15:49

@dwarmstrong Caddy is a good choice and I have used it quite a bit myself. I also host static sites on Netlify and played with the idea of moving to a self hosted setup.

Why are you considering it for your site?

In my experience you lose a lot of useful features: CDN, automatic optimisations, publish via git push to name but a few :-)

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-10-29 at 16:00

@axels Mostly for the learning experience of how to setup and admin a remote server, a website, with an eye to hosting other services in the future.

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Written by Axel on 2024-10-29 at 16:14

@dwarmstrong cool, that's a fun reason for sure and you motivated me to jot down my thoughts and remember how I did it last time 😃

(Add reminder to myself to turn a cleaned up version into a blog post and share it)

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Written by Martin Boller 🇺🇦 :tux: :freebsd: :windows: :mastodon: on 2024-10-29 at 16:49

@dwarmstrong Running website on DO. DNS at a real DNS provider and Nginx/hugo. When adding other services such as mail be aware that it takes some time to build reputation (true for website too) and that some RBLs are scams - when/if you go there here's some material that may be useful:

https://blog.sucuri.net/2021/02/uceprotect-when-rbls-go-bad.html

Book on mail servers by @mwl https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ryoms

My notes on webserver at DO

https://www.infosecworrier.dk/blog/2023/01/Personal-website-hugo.html

and DNS

https://www.infosecworrier.dk/blog/2022/02/dns-hosting-with-gratisdns-is-dead-long.html

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