If you are stuck on completing this long-ass tutorial that you linked, I’d suggest not overcomplicating it and just launching a VM, droplet, or even just paying

If you are stuck on completing this long-ass tutorial that you linked, I’d suggest not overcomplicating it and just launching a VM, droplet, or even just paying a provider for blog hosting. For me Ghost worked very well for this purpose. I’ve had this happen to me far too many times: my engineering sensibilities get in the way of just putting the stuff out there. My suggestion is to off the engineering cap and pretend like your blog or website is a business. What return on investment do you get out of all the time spent writing configuration/code, figuring out your deployment scheme, and standing up infrastructure? For me, I didn’t get any, so I decided to scrap my overcomplicated nonsense and spin up a DigitalOcean droplet with a few clicks. Another few clicks to dump it behind Clpudflare, enable some basic VM backups, and add a basic DO firewall and I was done.