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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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[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This 11ty sounds like a nice off the shelf solution to getting a blog started, which I want to do, but how to allow comments? I guess I'm asking what's everyone around here solution for comments

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

Can't really help you there, since comments were never a consideration for me. They would add an unneeded amount of moderation, and potential threat, to my blog.

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

I love 11ty, I build my blog with it.

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah, took me a while to get the hang with Nunjucks, which I had never heard of or used before. But once I got it all properly set up, it was super simple and easy. I'll definetly write a guide to it too, eventually.

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

For getting your stuff available over the internet, y I recommend a secure tunnel with wire guard between your vps and servers running the services.

Make your vps an authentication portal using stuff like Authelia and Fail2ban.

If you're really needing out, get ELK stood up for free and get agents on your containers/services to keep visibility into any potential... Anything

[–] gibdos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I've personally never found the need to do that. If you follow basic security guidelines and keep your server os and the docker service up-to-date, there really isn't any real threat.

Though I have heard of Authelia before and was interested in reading up on SSO, one of these days.

[–] lando55@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I wrestled with whether or not I should be that guy, but self-hosting by definition generally means everything down to the bare metal, i.e. not a VPS.

I can understand how the term could apply to the broader definition of running your own services on managed infrastructure, but it seems odd not to make that distinction in a beginners guide.

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