Self-Hosting Beginners Guide Part 1
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An introduction to selfhosting

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.

EDIT (2025-10-28): Finally got around to get a proper domain and switched my blog to Hugo. Much easier to deal with and more capable imho than 11ty (and actually useful documentation as well). Oh and got rid of Netlify. Their 300 credit limit for a free deploy project is far too limiting if any deploy costs 15 credits…

  • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    6 days ago

    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

      • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I think I want to do a coding / dev blog and hope that some comments help me explore other ways to write code that’s why I’m thinking of allowing comments. Thoughts on this? Also, discus might work. Thank!

    • gibdos@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 days ago

      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.

      • dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I think I want to do a coding / dev blog and hope that some comments help me explore other ways to write code that’s why I’m thinking of allowing comments. Thoughts?