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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Internet 101 if you want control, self host.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it was easy, I would have done it by now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hmmm, from a tech perspective there's lots of VPS hosts that provide dashboards to deploy a CMS in one click (Ghost, WordPress, etc.), in that way it's never been easier to get started. The hard part though is gaining visibility and publishing enough content to give people a reason to visit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my opinion, one of the main benefits of selfhosting ( aside from controlling your data,) is that you don't have to pay for the VPS/CMS service, of course you pay for the infrastructure.. As someone who HATES monthly subscriptions it's one of the main reasons I don't have an online presence yet

I tried to run Ubuntu server and slapped something on top of it ( CasaOS ), which i didn't like, then I tried Ghost ( and failed miserably )..

It's not easy and YouTubers are full of shit ( they skip so many details )

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To each their own, that can be a benefit but youll still need to buy hardware, maintain the server software and maybe rent rack space (if you need bandwidth).

My tiny slice of the web hosts a private image gallery for my family to upload and share photos. Going into it I wasn't really interested in administering yet another server. Instead I threw $6 at a VPS and had a publicly accessible, user friendly site with backups up and running in about 15 minutes.. and I haven't had to think about it again since. And Google/Meta isn't training their AI on my niece's birthday pictures. That monthly sub is worth it for reclaiming my time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That monthly sub is worth it for reclaiming my time

Yeah definitely, it's a small price for the benefit, but also to add to how I feel about subscriptions, I think their major flaw is they don't consider poor parts of the world like Africa were I live, while 6 $ is reasonable or even cheap for some people, here it's a lot of money ( x200 which means 1$ = 200 ), so it's not accessible..

Only few, very few websites change their pricing based on my IP address, or send me to a different domain, but for the most part it's not affordable

You might ask, does you ISPs have VPS plans ? Yes they do,

Tap for spoilerwaaaay more expensive than European VPSs combined ... LoL...

There's also politics and agenda involved but won't get into it, it's just bad news, and we have enough of that already

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The currency situation makes sense and I apologize-- I realize now I had a very western-centric perspective while writing my thoughts. I can absolutely understand hosting on your own hardware, as the opportunity cost in that situation is hugely different. I think the next best option is a good server OS and the ghost docker container but you are right it is not as straight forward or easy. Best of luck friend, trust documentation not youtubers :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Best of luck friend

Thank you

trust documentation not youtubers :)

yeah, I learned my lesson.. (´・ᴗ・ ` )