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I have a home server. It runs on a 2013/14 HP Pavillion laptop. I am indeed a linux user. I currently have arch linux installed on it. I run a blog at [0] and u

I have a home server. It runs on a 2013/14 HP Pavillion laptop. I am indeed a linux user. I currently have arch linux installed on it. I run a blog at [0] and use a dynamic dns provider. I must say, it has not been easy at all. I learned a lot of things. I did not attend any school lectures to learn this. I am still in high school, but thanks to the beauty of the internet and a ton of effort I was able to get a static blog working, learned a lot about free software, how sometimes just using certain web servers is just too complex. The main web server is at [0]. It runs on my home internet connection. Thankfully they do allow for port forwarding. But it's certainly a good exercise to understand how much we give for granted to giant and sometimes small corporations. I've learned to write and express my feelings among lots of other technical knowledge. references [0] https://blog.trevcan.duckdns.org/ https://blog.trevcan.duckdns.org/ [1] https://trevcan.duckdns.org/ https://trevcan.duckdns.org/

sdoering 5y ago
My utmost respect. I ran a Linux box at home while I was at university. It acted like a NAT/masquerading server. It was the time when DSL routers weren't a thing. At least not widely available. But I never had the idea to use it to host internal or external stuff there. Kudos to you.
jeroenhd 5y ago
I love arch for a lot of things, but I've learned to keep stick to more "traditional" operating systems when it comes to servers. There's simply no auto-update functionality available in Arch so you need to constantly remind yourself to update. I wish you the best of luck with your arch server endeavours, may they treat you better than they have treated me. Ubuntu is pushing me away with their idiotic focus on snap every new release but I'm not hosting anything on a server that I can't just run sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades on to auto install security patches. I still need to reboot my servers from time to time, but that's rarely ever really necessary for security. It's a shame because I think the "closer to the metal" approach of Arch works quite well for server setups.

sdoering 5y ago

My utmost respect. I ran a Linux box at home while I was at university. It acted like a NAT/masquerading server. It was the time when DSL routers weren't a thing. At least not widely available. But I never had the idea to use it to host internal or external stuff there. Kudos to you.

jeroenhd 5y ago

I love arch for a lot of things, but I've learned to keep stick to more "traditional" operating systems when it comes to servers. There's simply no auto-update functionality available in Arch so you need to constantly remind yourself to update. I wish you the best of luck with your arch server endeavours, may they treat you better than they have treated me. Ubuntu is pushing me away with their idiotic focus on snap every new release but I'm not hosting anything on a server that I can't just run sudo dpkg-reconfigure unattended-upgrades on to auto install security patches. I still need to reboot my servers from time to time, but that's rarely ever really necessary for security. It's a shame because I think the "closer to the metal" approach of Arch works quite well for server setups.