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A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1 (gtfoss.netlify.app)

submitted 3 days ago by gibdos@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I recently became interessted in learning about static site generators. So I decided to start a little 11ty blog, in which I teach people, who are new to self-hosting, how to securely set up their own server with Ubuntu and Docker.

For now, I've got my Beginners Guide series as well as a more detailed introduction to SSH and its features. I plan to eventually write down all I've learned about self-hosting in the past 20 years.

Hope it ends up being helpful for some of you.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Ubuntu and Docker.

Really? Netplan alone disqualifies Ubuntu as a "friendly stable starter distro", and I can guarantee you that your guide will somehow become outdated with a single new Ubuntu release, or some poor soul who accidentally selected an LTS release.

Docker doesn't matter as much, but there's a reason beyond just FOSS licensing why podman exists.

Would highly recommend Debian instead.

I started on Ubuntu similar to this many years ago and both the server and desktop experience was not fun at all.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think you are conflating desktop Ubuntu with Ubuntu Server. On a server, you absolutly want a stable, long supported LTS version.

I've been hosting on Ubuntu Server for over 10 years now, and at no point were any packages required to keep it up to date and running outdated.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is when you upgrade

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You mean from one LTS to the next? It's been a while, but as far as I remember, it worked fine on my last server (22.04 to 24.04).

And even if something doesn't work, I can have all my stuff spun up on a new server in less than an hour. But that, of course, depends on the amount of data you host.

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