Series: Hosting My Own Things

Hosting My Own Things, part 4

Well, it hasn’t been six years! It’s been a little less than a year since my last blog post, and I finally spent some time figuring out a decent way to get image galleries working. I’ve gone back and edited the posts that should have had image galleries to add them. Hugo has some pretty sweet image resizing tricks up it’s sleeve. A big thanks to Christian Specht’s post for getting me going in the right direction.

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Hosting My Own Things, part 3

It’s been a little over six years since my last “Hosting My Own Things” post. In that time, my home network and hosting setup has changed drastically multiple times. When I posted last, this blog was a WordPress site running inside VirtualBox on my 2009 Mac Pro. The first large change was from VirtualBox to VMware ESXi later in 2016 since I was working more with VMware during my day job at the time.

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Hosting My Own Things, part 2.5

Okay, so it’s not really hosting my own things, since I’m paying Microsoft $4 a month, but I’ve set up a new Exchange Online account and am liking the control I have over it vs. iCloud or Gmail. It was trivially easy to set up and link to my domain that I own. I’ll be transitioning over to it over the next few weeks.

Hosting My Own Things, part 2

When I initially set up this blog, I had to it set up using https instead of http since my ISP blocks regular http traffic to my server. No big deal, except I had to use my own certificate which meant anyone viewing my blog had to click through a big “THIS SITE MAY NOT BE SECURE” warning. But good news! A new certificate authority is granting legit certs for free.

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Hosting My Own Things

Lately, I have been interested in seeing how much of what I do online could be hosted by myself, on my own server, in my house. It’s also a good excuse to play with virtual machines and generally be nerdy. To that end, I have imported my entire Tumblr blog to this WordPress site that I built and am hosting myself. Hooray.