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Building your own LAMP stack on a VPS from scratch is a good learning exercise, but opens you up to various attacks. For example if you're running Wordpress, ex

by vmoore 3y ago

Building your own LAMP stack on a VPS from scratch is a good learning exercise, but opens you up to various attacks. For example if you're running Wordpress, expect /wp-admin to be scanned and brute forced, and your whole site to be scraped by bots, not to mention bandwidth issues when your site gets hugged to death from Reddit/HN/Social Media. Just get a blog on Ghost[0] or Posthaven[1] and all the worry of getting hacked / traffic issues goes away. [0] https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/ [1] https://posthaven.com/ https://posthaven.com/

lobotomology 3y ago
I'll add onto your list of recs with https://bearblog.dev/ https://bearblog.dev/ in case someone else sees the comment and would like to find possible hosts for their own blog. Thank you for your comment. I take your word to heart, I've thought about throwing in the towel and letting someone else do the worrying about hosting but then again, I find it fun to play around with a personal page and if there's ever a need to scale outwards it would be incredibly easy (like if I ever end up wanting to host my own Nethack-server).
NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Yes, it's a question of whether you want to be a sysadmin, or a webmaster. You can put a lot of time into working with the cloud services, tweaking your security posture and fiddling with the stack configuration, or you can get the hosted, turnkey website, and let someone else handle the infrastructure.
- pixodaros 3y ago
  The traditional solution was to buy web hosting as a service, buy the domain name registration as a service, and create the site yourself. I don't find it very complicated to either create the static site or update a pre-configured Wordpress installation and I don't think it would be for anyone with a computer science degree or experience as a software developer or sysadmin.

by vmoore 3y ago

lobotomology 3y ago

I'll add onto your list of recs with https://bearblog.dev/ https://bearblog.dev/ in case someone else sees the comment and would like to find possible hosts for their own blog. Thank you for your comment. I take your word to heart, I've thought about throwing in the towel and letting someone else do the worrying about hosting but then again, I find it fun to play around with a personal page and if there's ever a need to scale outwards it would be incredibly easy (like if I ever end up wanting to host my own Nethack-server).

NoZebra120vClip 3y ago

Yes, it's a question of whether you want to be a sysadmin, or a webmaster. You can put a lot of time into working with the cloud services, tweaking your security posture and fiddling with the stack configuration, or you can get the hosted, turnkey website, and let someone else handle the infrastructure.

pixodaros 3y ago
The traditional solution was to buy web hosting as a service, buy the domain name registration as a service, and create the site yourself. I don't find it very complicated to either create the static site or update a pre-configured Wordpress installation and I don't think it would be for anyone with a computer science degree or experience as a software developer or sysadmin.