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  • minnix@lemux.minnix.devtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldNeed help getting started
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    15 days ago

    At the very least you need to install a webserver and you need a proxy of some kind. If you truly want old school you can just create html pages hosted from the root of your webserver (although there are now easier modern ways to do this, you might learn more the classic way rather than using a CMS).

    You will want a reverse proxy to lie between your webserver and the internet that handles SSL. Let’s Encrypt is a good option to generate a cert so that you only expose port 443 on your router to the internet and your webserver. You’ll have to open port 80 to generate the cert but can close it again once generated. Then you will have https.

    That’s the basics. The how-to’s are easy to find online.













  • I often tell this to people that are struggling with motivation, motivation is overrated. Discipline is the key. Unlike motivation, discipline is a skill, and skills can be learned through practice. The more you practice discipline, the more ingrained in you discipline becomes, until the urge to exercise is no different than the urge to eat, drink, or breathe. Not many people are motivated to wash the dishes, clean their surroundings, or go to work. Through force of will we do these things, until discipline takes over and they become a part of our life’s routine.







  • It’s extremely light to run, and very easy to install and upgrade. I ran one for just myself without open registrations. The only con is that the community (self-hostable) version doesn’t allow js due to “safety reasons” so in order to have something like comments for your blog you have to either perform several janky CSS hacks or adjust the source code yourself. The only reason I chose wf was because of federation, but I eventually switched to standard WordPress with the federation plugin and now have comments and whatever else I want.