Dandersens Blogging Here

It may seem quite ironic that the first post on this blog is my thinking and setup about self hosting, and my second is a note about how it's not worth the effort, but many things in life end up this way.   You don't realize how much effort something is, why a service exists, or you must just be better than other people. Then you go to do your first software update of your server stack and your docker instances start misbehaving. Or you want to add image support that is not on disk and now you have to go pull in some random person's R2 implementation for ghost (shout out to https://github.com/egeldenhuys/ghost-cloudflare-r2 , it did indeed work).  Some things are worth letting someone else handle, and imo this is one of them. I'll be posting more often now, and about more varied topics, so that's something for all three of you to look foward.   Much love peeps,   Dayne 

There have been so many things cooking for the past year that choosing the topic for a first post is incredibly difficult. But! I think the easiest option is to describe how we arrived at today's blogpost itself, what the setup looks like for replication purposes, and what the long-term purpose of this site will be. This is a simple Ghost website, a well known opensource WordPress alternative, self hosted on a Raspberry Pi 4 sitting on my desk, running as a docker container. The domain is managed by porkbun for its registrar, and was transferred to me by the lovely friend DJ. The nameservers are pointed to some Cloudflare provided options to allow management via Cloudflare. Access to the site itself, along with TLS cert management and termination, is handled by a Cloudflare tunnel pointed at the Ghost process. The magic of these interactions are continually impressive, so much value provided for free that its turning me into a Cloudflare shill.... which leads me into some additiona...