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A Beginners Guide To Selfhosting Part 1 (gtfoss.org)
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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...

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[โ€“] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For me the footguns in debian have been an unintuitive upgrade process that lets you break things, and configurations/software that don't work well out of the box without user knowledge and intervention. But for my server, Debian has been very nice and lightweight.

Even though Ubuntu is not always pure good the way that Debian is (remember when they had Amazon advertisements and search integrated into the desktop), and minor annoyances like the apt advert are annoying, but they offer an amount of stability and ease of use that I think earns the nickname "preconfigured Debian"

[โ€“] shrugs@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I call bullshit. Debian stable just works, Ubuntu LTS releases use netplan instead of ifconfig, send your searches to Amazon, show advertising in the shell and push snaps down my throat. I used Ubuntu from 6.06 up until 10.04. Debian is just better with less corporate profit bogaloo