cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37243380

I have an nginx server with WordPress where I post my own poetry, for no one to see. Also the subdomains I use for some self-hosted stuff.

  • afb@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 months ago

    I have a couple of websites, a personal blog (rarely updated) on an Ubuntu VPS and a site for my horror fiction on an OpenBSD VPS. Wouldn’t host anything web-facing on my home network for security reasons.

  • Emotional_Series7814@kbin.melroy.org
    2·
    3 months ago

    Nope. I heard about how basically anything you expose to the internet gets attacked really quick by script kiddies and hackers, so I figure you have to have a lot of cybersecurity/networking knowledge that I don’t to do that successfully.

    Also, not even sure what I’d put up there. I’m not too sure anyone super cares about my personal projects besides maybe my friends, and I can just text them.

    This is probably a boring reply and not the answer you were looking for, but “no” is indeed a valid answer to the question and it is Fediverse engagement ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if this was a big community such that I knew your thread would be guaranteed to get replies, I would not have given the “no” kind of answer you probably were not looking for. Also, I do think my reasons why I do not have a website might be able to spark some discussion.

    • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I’m not too deep into cybersecurity but I haven’t encountered any issues tbh. I think nginx, a firewall like ufw, coupled with secure passwords and keeping things updated is mostly good enough. I do host on a VPS though so not at home.

  • Sabata@ani.social
    2·
    3 months ago

    I had a blog on running on wordpress a few years back but it turns out I’m not interesting and don’t do stuff. I wanted to host a read only Wikipedia mirror that syncs up with the real one but I’m not sure what software to use and lose interest by the time the database torrent finishes.

  • DosDude@retrolemmy.com
    2·
    3 months ago

    I’m running my own lemmy instance, and have my own website running for just ramblings of my mind. No one will read it, except maybe bots, and that’s fine.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    I move around too often, so I don’t have a stable base from where I could get into self hosting. So I have some somepletly overpriced hosting plan for my personal website instead.

    It’s probably for the better, as I don’t have the time to learn these things properly, so if I did self hosting it would probably be a bit janky. I’m fascinated by the idea of it though.

  • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee
    12·
    3 months ago

    Self hosted WordPress is a big no-no in my opinion, very easy to get violated by random scripts.

    If you really don’t want a static site builder like jekyll, at least make it dockerized (do it even for a static website, dockerize everything as it’s better anyway)