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Do you selfhost your own blog/website? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey there!

I'm thinking about starting a blog about privacy guides, security, self-hosting, and other shenanigans, just for my own pleasure. I have my own server running Unraid and have been looking at self-hosting Ghost as the blog platform. However, I am wondering how "safe" it is to use one's own homelab for this. If you have any experience regarding this topic, I would gladly appreciate some tips.

I understand that it's relatively cheap to get a VPS, and that is always an option, but it is always more fun to self-host on one's own bare metal! :)

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[–] cron@feddit.org 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, with these reasons:

Bandwidth isn't plenty
My "uptime" at home isn't great
No redundant hardware, even a simple mainboard defect would take a while to replace

I have a VPS for these tasks, and I host a few sites for friends amd family.

[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Weeeell, there's a school of though leaning towards the opinion that using VPS is still self-hosting ;)

[–] cron@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

I agree, but I understood this question in the context of a homelab.

And for me, a homelab is not the right place for a public website, for the reasons I mentioned.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

And it's a school of thought I happen to agree with. :) But OP specifically called out homelab vs VPS.