If you’re reading this now, it’s been freshly served to you from my new VPS (virtual private server). Previously, this site was hosted on Cloudflare Pages, a generous free hosting option. You just point Pages at a hosted git repo and it will rebuild your site every time you push an update, up to 500 times per month.[1] It was super reliable (I wasn’t even affected by the recent outages), and pretty much effortless. So why did I just make life harder for myself? Greater flexibility. I know you can use Cloudflare Workers to do more fancy server-side stuff, but honestly I think I’d rather just play around on the actual (virtual) server. Opportunity to learn. I’ve been using the Linux desktop for over ten years now, and I’ve been learning a little about how this web malarkey works for around three years. It’s time to go to the next level by managing my own web server. As for why I didn’t go “all the way” and host the site from some old hardware at home (I was tempted), there are a few…
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